The notary's nose;

I8 THE NOTARY'S NOSE.
always followed. Sometimes the heart
speaks. Sometimes the dancing girls are
known to marry the dancing men. Sometimes little girls as pretty as Venus Anadyomene have been known to save a hundred thousand francs' worth of jewelry,
that they might lead to the altar a clerk
on two thousand a year. Others leave
the care of their future to chance, and are
the despair of their families. One concludes to wait until the tenth of April before disposing of her heart, because she
has sworn to herself that she would keep
steady until she should be seventeen.
Another finds a protector to her taste, but
does not dare to say so; she dreads the
vengeance of a treasury auditor, who has
vowed to kill her and himself, if she should
love anybody else. He is joking, as you
understand very well. But in this little
world they take people's words in earnest.
How naive they are, and ignorant of