One doctor leaves you,
another comes to replace him.
ARG. I greatly fear that you will cause some misfortune.
BER. Oh! You are harping upon that string again?
ARG. Ah! I have on my mind all those diseases that I don't understand,
those....
SCENE X.--ARGAN, BERALDE, TOINETTE (_dressed as a doctor_).
TOI. Allow me, Sir, to come and pay my respects to you, and to offer
you my small services for all the bleedings and purging you may
require.
ARG. I am much obliged to you, Sir. (_To_ BERALDE) Toinette
herself, I declare!
TOI. I beg you will excuse me one moment, Sir. I forgot to give a
small order to my servant.
SCENE XI.--ARGAN, BERALDE.
ARG. Would you not say that this is really Toinette?
BER. It is true that the resemblance is very striking. But it is not
the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and history is
full of those freaks of nature.
ARG. For my part, I am astonished, and....
SCENE XII.--ARGAN, BERALDE, TOINETTE.
TOI. What do you want, Sir?
ARG. What?
TOI. Did you not call me?
ARG. I? No.
TOI. My ears must have tingled then.
ARG. Just stop here one moment and see how much that doctor is like
you.
TOI. Ah! yes, indeed, I have plenty of time to waste! Besides, I have
seen enough of him already.
SCENE XIII.--ARGAN, BERALDE.
ARG. Had I not seen them both together, I should have believed it was
one and the same person.
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