Some one does it at last.

When the alternative came: "No nose to the hero, no moral to the tale;" could there be hesitation?
And I would warn our sentimentalists to admit the nose among the features proper to heroes, otherwise the race will become extinct.
There is already an amount of dropping of the curtain that is positively wearisome, even to extremely refined persons, in order to save him from apparent misconduct.

He will have to go altogether, unless we boldly figure him as other men.

Manifestly the moment his career as a fairy prince was at end, he was on the high road to a nose.

The beneficent Power that discriminated for him having vanished utterly, he was, like a bankrupt gentleman, obliged to do all the work for himself.