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Godefroid was silent . `` From what you say , '' went on the doctor , `` the lady in question is the granddaughter of that imbecile who had no courage but that of fighting , and who took part in delivering over his country to Catherine II ? '' `` Yes , monsieur . '' `` Well , be at her house Monday next at three o'clock , '' said Halpersohn , taking out a note-book in which he wrote a few words . `` You will give me then two hundred francs ; and if I promise to cure the patient you will give me three thousand . I am told , '' he added , `` that the lady has shrunk to almost nothing . '' `` Monsieur , if the most celebrated doctors in Paris are to be believed , it is a neurotic case of so extraordinary a nature that they denied the possibility of its symptoms until they saw them . ''