The notary's nose;

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anatomical designs, calm, stoical, and indifferent to suffering. And he asked himself if such a degree of courage could
ever have found place in the human soul.
Oftener than anything else, his fancy pictured a little surgeon on page 89, dressed
entirely in black, with a velvet collar on
his coat. This fantastic creature, with a
round head, rather vigorous aspect, bald
forehead, and serious face, was intently
sawing away at the two lower leg bones
of a living man.
"Monster! " cried M. l'Ambert.
At the same instant he beheld the monster enter in person, and M. Bernier was
announced. The notary fled backwards to
the darkest corner of his room, staring with
haggard eyes, and holding his hands out before him as if to keep off an enemy; his teeth
chattered, and he murmured in a smothered
voice, just as they do in the romances of M.
Xavier de Montepin, the words: