Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. 7: Mont Oriol and Other Stories
This title was his strength and the establishment his chattel. There he spent his days, and even, it was said, his nights. A hundred times, in the morning, he would go from his house which was quite near in the village, to his consultation-study fixed at the right-hand side facing the entrance to the thermal baths. Lying in wait there, like a spider in his web, he watched the comings and goings of the invalids, inspecting his own patients with a severe eye and those of the other doctors with a look of fury. He questioned everybody almost in the style of a ship's captain, and he struck terror into newcomers, un less it happened that he made them smile.
As, on this day, he arrived with a rapid step, which made the big flaps of his old frock coat fly up like a pair of wings, he was stopped suddenly by a voice exclaim ing: Doctor!
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