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can go in and out as you please: you will bring the priest with you, and will oblige me by introducing him into my child's room."

"Do you wish to see him?"

"I wish to be alone. You will excuse me, will you not? A priest can understand all griefs, even a father's grief."

And Villefort, giving the key to d'Avrigny, again bade farewell to the strange doctor, and retired to his study, where he began to work. For some temperaments work is a remedy for all afflictions.

As the doctors entered the street, they saw a man in a cassock standing on the threshold of the next door.