This, from that day resumed its ordinary life came carriage, on horseback, on foot, danced the dances of the faubourg, and beautified with his presence the foyer of the Opera. All women received him perfectly in the world and beyond. One of the most fondly congratulated him on his cure was the older sister of his friend Seinfield.

This amiable young man, who was in the habit of looking to men face to face, observed that M. Salin had left the last crisis more beautiful than ever. And indeed, it seemed as if those two or three months of illness had given his face a something perfect. The nose, above all, that straight nose, which had just regained its normal dimensions after excessive dilatation seemed thinner, whiter and more aristocratic than ever.

This was also the opinion of groomed lawyer, who looked in all the mirrors with a growing admiration of his person. Have seen him face to face with his image, smiling, deified, his own nose!

But the return of spring, in the second half of March, while the sap was generous resprout lilacs, came to believe M. Salin that only her nose were denied the benefits of the station and the bounties of nature. Amid the general revival of all things, pale as an autumn leaf. Its wings, thinner and as dried by the desert wind, adosábanse increasingly central to its partition.

– Show them! ‘Said the notary, making a face in the mirror, the distinction is a beautiful thing, like virtue, but this is too much. My nose is acquiring a haunting elegance, and, if not try to give some strength and color, very soon there will be a shadow.