The notary's nose;

UNCLE AND NEPHEW.
I.
I AM sure that you have passed Doctor
Auvray's house twenty times without supposing that miracles are performed there.
It is a modest-looking house, without any
display or any sign: it does not even bear
on its door the unattractive inscriptionMaison de sanlt. It is situated near the
end of the Avenue Montaigne, between
Prince Soltikoff's gothic palace and the
great Triat's gymnasium where they regenerate mankind on the trapeze. A gate,
painted in imitation of bronze, opens upon
a little garden of lilacs and roses. The
porter's lodge is at the right; the building