The notary's nose;

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in security which I will guarantee, and in
abundance proportionate to your modest
wants. I'll supply money enough to get
you established —and I'll get work for you.
If, through some impossibility, you should
lack the means of living, you will find
something to fall back upon wherever I am.
But give up this absurd project of marrying my cook. For you ought not to bind
your lot with that of a servant. And
I don't want any children about the
house!"
The unfortunate fellow wept with all his
eyes, and overflowed with expressions of
gratitude. I ought to say, in justice to M.
1'Ambert, that he did quite the proper
thing. He gave Romagn6 a fresh outfit
of clothing, furnished a chamber on the
fifth floor in an old house il the Rue
Cherche-mid, and gave him five hundred
francs to live upon while waiting for work.
A week had not passed before he got him