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advantage of the opportunity, he slipped the green frog into the basin. On seeing the frog a load was removed from the Duchess' heart, and for an instant all seemed well. The next moment she turned pale, and Dr Cabarus supported her tottering frame, she cried in a despairing toue : " Oh, doctor! I am not yet cured, for the frog has left a little one behind." Stop!" cried Cabarus, without allowing a trace of embarrassment to be seen in his man ner : " that we shall see." He then threw a searching glance upon the frog, which he had by this time taken in his hand, and uttered, with a certainty that settled the whole question, these words: "Madame, that is an impossibility, for the frog is a male."

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