--'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.

''Tis a full inch longer than my father's,' continued my grandfather, pressing up the ridge of his nose with his finger.
'You must mean your uncle's,' replied my great-grandmother.
