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low with delight this delicious perfume, and find it 

 an added incentive to their murderous designs. 

 Deprive a fox of his brush and let him go, and the 

 subsequent sport of catching him will be of very 

 short duration ; for his run will soon come to an end, 

 and the whole pack of huntsmen and hounds will be 

 in at the death." 



Madame de Stael's idea of the sense of smell may 

 have been founded on some such knowledge, and she 

 may have had a long nose as well as a large foot. 



" How so, madam?" 



You have heard of Talleyrand's retort at the 

 masked ball when she challenged him for recogni- 

 tion: " C'est Men facile de reconnaitre la statue par le pied 

 de Staei:"^ 



"Ah, I remember, but it was a cruel thrust of 

 Talleyrand's." 



* It is very easy to recognize the statue by the (pedestal) foot of Stael 



