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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 suffering Írom superabundant vitality. Your disease is a constitutional 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 doctors rose, bowed to the minister and the king, shook hands with one another, and went down-stairs quarreling or laughing, 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. Charming, 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 178
