With all this learning upon Noses running perpetually in my father's fancy----with so many family prejudices--and ten decads of such tales running on for ever along with them----how was it possible with such exquisite----was it a true nose? ----That a man with such exquisite feelings as my father had, could bear the shock at all below stairs----or indeed above stairs, in any other posture, but the very posture I have described?
----Throw yourself down upon the bed, a dozen times----taking care only to place a looking-glass first in a chair on one side of it, before you do it --But was the stranger's nose a true nose, or was it a false one?
To tell that before-hand, madam, would be to do injury to one of the best tales in the Christian-world; and that is the tenth of the tenth decad, which immediately follows this.
This tale, cried _Slawkenbergius_, somewhat exultingly, has been reserved by me for the concluding tale of my whole work; knowing right well, that when I shall have told it, and my reader shall have read it thro'--'twould be even high time for both of us to shut up the book; inasmuch, continues _Slawkenbergius_, as I know of no tale which could possibly ever go down after it.
'Tis a tale indeed!
This sets out with the first interview in the inn at _Lyons_, when _Fernandez_ left the courteous stranger and his sister _Julia_ alone in her chamber, and is over-written
_THE INTRICACIES_ of _Diego_ and _Julia_

With all this learning upon Noses running perpetually in my father's fancy - with so many family prejudices - ten decads of such tales - how could a man with such exquisite feelings as my father bear the shock in any other posture, but the very one I have described?
Throw yourself down upon the bed - only place a looking-glass in a chair beside it, before you do-
- But was the stranger's nose a true nose, or a false one?
To tell that before-hand, madam, would spoil one of the best tales in the Christian-world; and that is the tenth of the tenth decad, which immediately follows it.
This tale, cried Slawkenbergius, somewhat exultingly, has been reserved by me for the conclusion of my whole work, as I know of no tale which could possibly ever go down after it.
'Tis a tale indeed!
It starts with the first interview in the inn at Lyons, when Fernandez left the courteous stranger and his sister Julia alone in her chamber, and is titled
THE INTRICACIES OF DIEGO AND JULIA
