The notary's nose;

120 THE NOTARY'S NOSE.
When he returned to the house in the
Rue de Verneuil, he was anxious and even
timid, and it cost an effort to master himself before saying to M. l'Ambert.
" Medicine does not embrace all natural phenomena; and I have come to
submit to you a theory which has no
scientific character. My colleagues would
perhaps make sport of me if I were to tell
them that a piece taken from a man's body
can remain under the influence of its former possessor. It is your blood propelled
by your heart, under the action of your
brain, which has this unfortunate tendency
to your nose. Nevertheless I am tempted
to believe that that booby of an Auvergnat is not a stranger to the circumstance."
M. l'Ambert exclaimed against this
loudly. The idea that that vile mercenary
whom he had paid, and whom he owed
nothing, could exercise an occult influence