The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman · Laurence Sterne

Volume II, Chapter 25

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----“BECAUSE,” quoth my great grandmother, repeating the words again--“you have little or no nose, Sir.”----

S’death! cried my great-grandfather, clapping his hand upon his nose,--’tis not so small as that comes to;----’tis a full inch longer than my father’s.--Now, my great-grandfather’s nose was for all the world like unto the noses of all the men, women, and children, whom Pantagruel found dwelling upon the island of ENNASIN.----By the way, if you would know the strange way of getting a-kin amongst so flat-nosed a people----you must read the book;----find it out yourself, you never can.----

--’Twas shaped, Sir, like an ace of clubs.

--’Tis a full inch, continued my grandfather, pressing up the ridge of his nose with his finger and thumb; and repeating his assertion----’tis a full inch longer, madam, than my father’s----You must mean your uncle’s, replied my great-grandmother.

----My great-grandfather was convinced.--He untwisted the paper, and signed the article.

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