Sealed Lips — page 154: what you’re looking at

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~ 146 SEALED LIPS. You could not but laugh, or rather you ought to have laughed at my simplicity.” “Did she tell you that she loved me?” “Not so fuolish! She gave no name. You have nothing to reproach her with. She was discretion itself.” “Do you know that I have seen her twice?” “And that to obey youshe marriesme. Yes, l know it. Probably you thought that I should be affected, and admire your self-denial. You are mistaken; I see clearly now; I understand every- thing. Ah, you are cunning creatures! Others would have made a fool of the husband vulgarlv speaking. You two people, honest after a fashion, you wait; the future is before you. What could you do now for Jenny Sauval? You have nothing but a stainless name, which would lose its immacu- lateness if the Countess O’Farrell should continue on the stage, a necessary sacrifice, if she should marry you. I arrange all. I take your beloved from the theater, I give her my name and money, at least you expect it. Certainly the widow of Godefroid, the composer, is not a brilliant match for a gentleman of as good blood as you are, but honor is safe, and I donot look like a man who would make you wait very long.” “Admit now that you are not the one who has imagined all this,” said Patrice, with a flash of anger from his eyes. “I should think that I heard Madame Sauval speaking. Admit that she was the GOmichboo KS GoM,