The notary's nose;

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anything, I am perfectly satisfied, and
sometimes bowed to a mere walking-lady,
taking her for a star; but he had the resolute air of an Alexander entering Babylon.
Moreover the little girls of the corps de
ballet, who usually nicknamed people, had
dubbed him "Conqueror." An amiable
fat Turk, secretary to the embassy, had
received the name "Tranquillity." A
member of the council of State, was called
"Melancholy;" the head secretary of the
---- office, a man of quick and awkward
gait, was called M. Turlu. That is why
little Elise Champagne, also known as
Champagne II., received the name of
"Turlurette; " when she left the coryphdes
to raise herself to the rank of suje/.4
My country readers (if this veracious
history should ever happen to pass beyond
the fortifications of Paris) will deliberate
a minute or two over the preceding paragraph. Even from here, I can hear a