The notary's nose;

CHAPTER IV.
SHEBASHTIAN ROMAGNE.
HE called himself Romagnd, the name
his father bore. His sponsors in baptism
had given him the name of Sebastian.
But as he was a native of Frognac [ls
Mauriac, in the department of Cantal, he
invoked his patron saint under the name
of Shaint Shebashtian. There is every reason to believe, that he would have written
his first name with an Sh; but fortunately
he did not know how to write. This child
of Auvergne had reached the age of
twenty three or four years; was built like
a Hercules; large, stout, thick-set, deepchested, big-boned, florid, strong as an ox,
good-natured, and as easy to lead as a
little white lamb. Imagine the most sub