Sealed Lips — page 151: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 143 CHAPTER XVI. SEPARATION. When Patrice left Jenny he was careful not to repeat his exhausting walk of the night before. He did not wish to expose himself to the ordeal of an- - other hour like that, and then, too, it was necessary to busy himself about his future, for he was re- solved to leave Paris the day of Godefroid’s marriage. For the hero of a classical romance situated as he was, to leave Paris meant to go home, give his valet orders, be driven to the station, dine in the refresh- ment-room, if the appetite had not been destroyed with hope, and at last to establish himself in a sleep- ing compartment engaged in advance, looking at the porter with an envious eye, thinking that he was destined to grow old without any of these troubles. But this kind of a comfortable, elegant suicide is not within reach of us all. For more than one rea- son Patrice could not think of affording this. He was somewhat like those desperate creatures very anxious to pay for the rope that is to hang them. The first thing was to find the rope, that is to say some business that would enable him to live else- where, and which would pay in advance the ex- GoOmicboo KS