Sealed Lips — page 131: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 123 of h.aring addressed to her, not under a stifling mask at the theater, but by a man, had been said. This profound tenderness, this charming respect, like asong breathed at the foot of a balcony, this murmured admiration so little ike the greenroom madrigals, all seemed to Jenny like the delicious preface to a book that she hoped to read soon, but with what deep emotion! The offer that her mother had transmitted on Godefroid’s part had glided over her heart likea question inastrange language which had struck her ear without appealing to her understanding. Madame Sauval was not one of those who was easily beaten. She would insist and question, and when she wished to know a thing the best kept secrets would not hold out before her curiosity. She soon learned two things—one, that nobody ever thought of concealing from her that her daughter’s heart was captured, the other she suspected also very quickly, that Jenny loved O’Farrell. | She knew her daughter too well to overwhelm her with vain or even formidable reproaches, she had no hesitation as to the step to be taken, and when Patrice stopped her on the stairs she had gone to Godefroid’s with the determination to say to him, without any circumlocution: “Your friend is your rival. Send him away!” Jenny was hardly surprised to see Patrice, al- though a visit from this young man, without being announced, was enough to have surprised her. For Gomichboo ‘S.coO