The notary's nose;

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all. He's got her, and I hope he'll take
care of her. Two sensible fellows are not
going to cut each others' throats for Mlle.
Victorine Tompain; but that confounded
blow-that spoils everything."
That is what he said between his teeth,
his thirty-two teeth, whiter and sharper
than those of a young wolf. He sent his
coachman back home, and started off
slowly on foot towards the Cercle des
Chemins de fer. There he found two
friends, and told them what had happened.
The old Marquis de Villemaurin, an excaptain of the royal guard; and young
Henri Steimbourg, a stock-broker, both
agreed that the blow spoiled everything.