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cut it off, as it's only hanging by a small bit of skin, 

 as it were, or I think I could make a fairly good job, 

 by stitching it on again. Which would you wish ? " 



" Well," said his reverence in the coolest possible 

 manner, "do which you like, Mr. Orange, but pray do 

 what you think Mrs. Empson would like best." So 

 thinking that she would like him better with his 

 nose on than with his nose off, he stitched it on and 

 made a good job of it, as was proved by his being 

 out again in a few days with nothing but a 

 blue-looking seam down it. 



