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?

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?
