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"How radiant you look! " said Countess Irma, as she met the doctor.
"Perhaps I do," he replied, "for I've just beheld that divine sight, -- a heart overflowing with pure love of its fellow-beings; -- but excuse me for a moment! " he said, interrupting himself and leaving the countess, while he went into an adjoining apartment and dispatched a telegram to Doctor Sixtus, instructing him to prepare himself for an eight days' journey, and to come to the summer palace forthwith. He then returned to the countess, to whom he gave an account of what had happened.