The notary's nose;

THE NOTARY'S NOSE. 7I
Bernier, surgeon of the Hotel Dieu, member of the Surgical Society, and of the
Academy of Medicine, clinical professor,
etc., etc., etc. The servant had run to the
nearest surgeon, in the Rue de Bac, and
he did not happen on a bad one. M. Bernier, if he was not quite the peer of Velpeau, Manec, and Huguier, occupied a
very honorable rank immediately below
them.
("Why don't he come?" cried M. l'Ambert; "why isn't he here now? Does
he think I'm to be kept waiting?"
And he began weeping harder than
ever; weeping before his servants. Can
a mere sabre-stroke so change a man's
ways? Certainly it would seem that the
weapon of our good Ayvaz in transversing
the nasal canal must have quite laid open
the lachrymal duct and the glands themselves.
The notary dried his eyes and examined