Sealed Lips — page 138: what you’re looking at

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130 _ SEALED LIPS, If I thought of that I should be obliged to tell you that I am poor, that work is my only portion. I am strong, and lam young—too young sometimes. I can struggle against life. Godefroid without you is lost; with him youcan be happy. You know now the truth.” “Alas!” exclaimed Jenny, “the truth sate is that I am lost, too. You have left me nothing here,” and she struck her breast. “You have killed all in me; the love that I had hoped for, the promised friend- ship, pride, all hepe inlife. With the.man that I love I could be a saint. With hate, despair, eternal spite, who knows what kind of a woman I may become?” | “Well,” said the young man, with a bitter smile, “at all events, [see that itis better that I should go. As well for the joys that I have found in Paris as those which await me, I like the desert and soli- tude much better.” Jenny was suddenly stricken with stupor. Her face fell, showing a sort of heart-broken terror that would have moved with compassion a stranger’s heart. “Ah! I am lost! You are all against me!” groaned she. “Nevertheless you promised me your friendship. It is the only thing left for me in this world.” “If you save Godefroid, until my dying day, I will be your friend. I willlove you like a sister, a sister who would have me save a life.” (COMME! NOVO) cS Geom