The notary's nose;

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everything! Why even two great girls,
sixteen years old, have been heard disputing over the nobility of their origin, and
the rank of their families.
"Just look at that girl," said the larger;
"her mother's ear-rings are silver, and my
father's are gold."
Master Alfred l'Ambert, after long deliberating between brunette and blonde,
had ended up by becoming enamored of a
pretty brunette with blue eyes. Mademoiselle Victorine Tompain was a knowing creature, as they generally are at the
opera, even on matters where they ought
not to be; well brought up too, and incapable of making any important decision
without consulting her parents. For
about six months she had been pressed
pretty closely by the handsome notary,
and by Ayvaz-Bey, that fat Turk, twentyfive years old, who was known by the nickname of " Tranquillity." Both had had