The notary's nose;

210 UNCLE AND NEPHEW.
family ever do anything for us? " —" Bah!"
responded the goodness of his heart.
"This won't amount to anything, anyway;
it's only a false alarm. Francois will be
well in a couple of days." —" Possibly,
however," continued the obstinate voice,
"the malady will kill the patient, and we'll
inherit without wronging anybody. We've
worked thirty years for the sovereign who
reigns at Potsdam; " who knows but what
a blow on a cracked head, may make our
fortune? "
The good man stopped his ears; but
his ears were so large, so ample, so nobly
expanded, like a conch-shell, that the subtle and persevering little voice always
slipped into them in spite of him. The
establishment in the Rue de Charonne
was left to the care of the foreman, and
the uncle established his winter-quarters
in his nephew's pretty rooms. He slept
in a good bed, and liked it. He sat at an