The notary's nose;

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jolly little fat belly. But the nose remained like a negligent or indifferent partner who did not collect his dividends.
When a sick person cannot eat or drink,
he is sometimes sustained by nourishing
baths, which penetrate through the skin to
the sources of life. M. l'Ambert treated
his nose like a patient who must be specially nourished, cost what it will. For its
sole behoof, he ordered a little silver-gilt
bath. Six times a day he plunged and patiently kept it in baths of milk, Burgundy
wine, strong soup, and even tomato
sauce. The pains were wasted. The patient came out of the bath as pale, thin,
and deplorable, as it had entered. All
hope seemed lost, when one day M. Bernier tapped his forehead, and cried:
"We've made an enormous mistakea regular school-boy blunder! And that
I should do it, when the thing brought
such a striking confirmation to the support