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Go away!"
Ursus felt something like Jonas when he was leaving the belly of the
whale.
Minos continued,--
"You are discharged."
Ursus said to himself,--
"They won't catch me at this again. Good-bye, medicine!"
And he added in his innermost heart,--
"From henceforth I will carefully allow them to die."
Bent double, he bowed everywhere; to the doctors, to the busts, the
tables, the walls, and retiring backwards through the door, disappeared
almost as a shadow melting into air.
He left the hall slowly, like an innocent man, and rushed from the
street rapidly, like a guilty one. The officers of justice are so
singular and obscure in their ways that even when acquitted one flies
from them.
As he fled he mumbled,--
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