The notary's nose;

202 UNCLE AND NEPHEW.
distinctly under their skin. She accompanied her mother, whom an inveterate
disorder (a chronic trouble of the throat,
if I am not mistaken) obliged to take
the waters. Mother and daughter must
have lived apart from the world, for they
regarded the boisterous crowd of bathers
with long looks of astonishment. Francois
was casually presented to them by one of
his friends, who had become cured and was
going to Italy through Germany. He attended them assiduously for a month, and
was virtually their only companion. For
sensitive souls, the crowd is a vast solitude; the more noise the world makes
around them, the more do they shrink into
their corner to whisper into each other's
ears. The young Parisienne and her
mother went right into Francois' heart as
naturally as from one room to the next,
and found it pleasant there. Every day
they discovered new treasures, like the