The notary's nose;

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shone as usual, impatiently waiting for the
end of the ballet, and the appearance of
the girls. His arrangements were made.
The future of Mlle. Victorine was fixed,
thanks to that excellent uncle in Poitiers,
who had died just in the nick of time.
The place in Paris that they call the
"Passage de' Opera," is crowded with
galleries wide or narrow, light or dark, of
various heights, which run along the boulevard, the Rue Lejpeelier, the Rue Drouot,
and the Rue Rossini. A long gallery,
open most of the way, reaches from the
Rue Drouot to the Rue Lejeletier, running
across from the Galerie du BaromUre and
the Galerie de ['Hortoge. At the lower
end of it are a couple of steps from the
Rue Drouot is the stage door of the theatre, the entrance used at night by the
artists. Every midnight, a crowd of three
or four hundred people rolls tumultuously
under the eyes of Papa Monge, the con