"To tell the truth," returned Sancho, "the monstrous nose of that squire has filled me with fear and terror, and I dare not stay near him."
"Thy advice is not bad," said Don Quixote, "for of enemies the fewer the better;" and he was drawing his sword to carry into effect Sancho's counsel and suggestion, when the squire of the Mirrors came up, now without the nose which had made him so hideous, and cried out in a loud voice, "Mind what you are about, Senor Don Quixote; that is your friend, the bachelor Samson Carrasco, you have at your feet, and I am his squire."
miself ure onur
nose I kant bee of ani farder sarvis to u in that
Passepartout, though he had not been able to study or rehearse a part, was designated to lend the aid of his sturdy shoulders in the great exhibition of the "human pyramid," executed by the Long Noses of the god Tingou.
But the principal attraction was the exhibition of the Long Noses, a show to which Europe is as yet a stranger.
"Thank you kindly," the Man with a Wart on His
Nose replied, pocketing the money; "it is just the same to us as if you joined.
"If your conscience," says the man with the
nose, "is indisposed toward foreign idioms ye might, to please yourself, smuggle the letter into the penultimate syllable."
She looked back at him for some time with a heated face, in which there hung a red shadow of anger; then, despite her anxieties, humour broke out of her eyes and the corners of her mouth, and she answered almost grimly: "Well, if you're so keen on my conversation, perhaps you'll answer my question." After a pause she added: "I had the honour to ask you why you thought the man's
nose was false."
We looked then, and saw that the
nose of our boat had got fixed under the woodwork of the lock, while the in-coming water was rising all around it, and tilting it up.
Now listen, while I appeal to these innocent
noses, in the language of their own dismal island.
Then, too, was the trick of "no can and can do." Placing a savoury, nose-tantalising bit of meat or cheese on the edge of the bunk on a level with Michael's
nose, Daughtry would simply say, "No can." Nor would Michael touch the food till he received the welcome, "Can do." Daughtry, with the "no can" still in force, would leave the stateroom, and, though he remained away half an hour or half a dozen hours, on his return he would find the food untouched and Michael, perhaps, asleep in the corner at the head of the bunk which had been allotted him for a bed.
Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent
nose. In despair he let it alone.
Charles was right, for Antonio, moving his face, with a laugh cried in his turn--"There, sir, my
nose is moved, but you can't see no better, after all."
He knew he was not in the room, though he stood up on his hind-legs and investigated the low bunk, his keen little
nose quivering delightedly while he made little sniffs of delight as he smelled the recent presence of Skipper.
She dropped her head, with her
nose to the ground and directed toward a point near to her closely bunched feet, and around this point she circled several times; then, with a tired sigh that was almost a grunt, she curled her body in, relaxed her legs, and dropped down, her head toward the entrance.
