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LABOULAYE S FAIRY BOOK
journey to the Clear Waters can cure you. Go quickly,
or you are a dead man. You have my opinion."
"Sire, said fat Jocundus, "I fully share the admirable
opinion of my dear professional brother. You are suffer¬
ing Írom superabundant vitality. Your disease is a con¬
stitutional plethora. Go, drink the Clear Waters, and you
will be a well man again. You have my opinion.”
‘Sire,’ said little Guilleret, "the diagnostic of my masters
fills me with admiration. I bow before their learning.
Like them, I believe that you are suffering from disorder
of the sympathetic nerves. Your disease is a constitutional
nervousness. Drink the Clear Waters. Go quickly, or you
are a dead man. You have my opinion.”
A unanimous opinion was drawn up and immediately
carried to the court gazette by Tonto; and the three doc¬
tors rose, bowed to the minister and the king, shook hands
with one another, and went down-stairs quarreling or laugh¬
ing, I know not which; the chronicle is almost illegible,
owing to a large blot in this place.
After the three physicians had gone, Wieduwillst read the
opinion, reflected deeply, and looked at the king. Charm¬
ing, who had supped a little better this evening even than
usual, had not once listened to the doctors, but sat gazing
around him with bloodshot eyes.
“Sire,” said he, "it is the unanimous opinion of these
gentlemen that, if you wish to be cured, you must go to
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