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Now, my great-grandfather's nose was for all the world like unto the noses of all the men, women, and children, whom Pantagruel found dwelling upon the island of Ennasin. By the way, if you would know the strange way of getting a-kin amongst so flat-nosed a people you must read the book; find it out yourself, you never can. 'Twas shaped, Sir, like an ace of clubs.
We had still the wind at south-south-west, and had been a whole day without making land. It was called the Island of Alliances. The people there are much like your carrot-pated Poitevins, save only that all of them, men, women, and children, have their noses shaped like an ace of clubs. For that reason the ancient name of the country was Ennasin.
Now from this same country of Ennasin, in case of need, above three hundred thousand, all relations and of one family, might march out.
Never did man do me an ill one without rueing the day that he did it, either in this world or the next. I am not yet so much a fool neither. Thou damn'st thyself like any old devil, quoth Friar John; it is written, Mihi vindictam, &c. How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Ennasin, and of the strange ways of being akin in that country.
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