What?
TOI. If I were you, I should have it cut off on the spot.
ARG. Why?
TOI. Don't you see that it attracts all the nourishment to itself, and
hinders this side from growing?
ARG. May be; but I have need of my arm.
TOI. You have also a right eye that I would have plucked out if I were
in your place.
ARG. My right eye plucked out?
TOI. Don't you see that it interferes with the other, and robs it of
its nourishment? Believe me; have it plucked out as soon as possible;
you will see all the clearer with the left eye.
ARG. There is no need to hurry.
TOI. Good-bye. I am sorry to leave you so soon, but I must assist at a
grand consultation which is to take place about a man who died
yesterday.
ARG. About a man who died yesterday?
TOI. Yes, that we may consider and see what ought to have been done to
cure him. Good-bye.
ARG. You know that patients do not use ceremony.
SCENE XV.--ARGAN, BERALDE.
BER. Upon my word, this doctor seems to be a very clever man.
ARG. Yes, but he goes a little too fast.
BER. All great doctors do so.
ARG. Cut off my arm and pluck out my eye, so that the other may be
better. I had rather that it were not better. A nice operation indeed,
to make me at once one-eyed and one-armed.
SCENE XVI.--ARGAN, BERALDE, TOINETTE.
TOI. (_pretending to speak to somebody_). Come, come, I am your
servant; I'm in no joking humour.
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