The notary's nose;

152 THE NOTARY'S NOSE.
a place in a large looking-glass factory in
the Rue de S'vres.
Some time elapsed, perhaps six months,
without the notary's nose giving any intelligence of the man who furnished it.
But one day when our man of law, together with his head clerk, was deciphering the parchments of a rich and noble
family, his gold spectacles broke in the
middle, and fell on the table.
This little accident did not disturb him
much. He took up an eye-glass with a
steel spring, and sent his spectacles to the
quai des oifevres, to be exchanged.
His optician, M. Luna, took the trouble
to send a thousand excuses, with a pair
of new spectacles which broke, before
twenty-four hours had passed, in the same
spot.
A third pair met the same fate, and a
fourth followed, and broke just like them.
The optician no longer knew what kind of