The notary's nose;

CHAPTER II.
THE CAT CHASE.
A TURKISH philosopher has said:
"There are no agreeable blows administered by the fist; but blows on the nose
are the most disagreeable of all."
The same thinker justly adds, in the
chapter immediately following: " To strike
a man before the woman he loves, is to
strike him twice; you wound the body and
the soul."
That is why Ayvaz-Bey, who was a patient man, grew red with anger, while he
took Mile. Tompain and her mother to the
apartment which he had furnished for
them. He bade them good-bye at the
door, jumped into a carriage, and drove,