While  he  kept  himself  in  his  place,  as  a  physician,  whose
business  was  with  all  degrees  of  mankind,  bond  and  free,  rich
and  poor,  bad  and  good,  he  used  his  personal  influence  so
wisely,  that  he  was  soon  the  inspecting  physician  of  three
prisons,  and  among  them  of  La  Force.  He  could  now  assure
Lucie  that  her  husband  was  no  longer  confined  alone,  but
was  mixed  with  the  general  body  of  prisoners ;  he  saw  her
husband  weekly,  and  brought  sweet  messages  to  her,  straight


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from  his  lips ;  sometimes  her  husband  himself  sent  a  letter  to
her  (though  never  by  the  Doctor's  hand),  but  she  was  not
permitted  to  write  to  him :  for,  among  the  many  wild  sus-
picions of  plots  in  the  prisons,  the  wildest  of  all  pointed  at
emigrants  who  were  known  to  have  made  friends  or  permanent
connections  abroad.
