Sealed Lips — page 193: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS, 185 time his horror for all letter writing, so much so, that Jenny offered to take his place. After breakfast was over Godefroid eagerly read the lines she had confided to him. The most jealous being could not have found the least complaint with this familiar chit-chat that had no hidden meanings. The voung woman told of their arrival, avoiding all that could approach unpleasant details. She spoke of the emotions that she experienced at seeing her birth-place and the gratitude that she should always have toward the man who had given her that pleasure. She added at the close: “He will be recompensed for it, for the air that we breathe here is the best in France. He will soon entirely regain his health, for he rests. You see that I serve as secretary. Write us without delay, tell us of your journey and the new country.” These lines convinced Godefroid that there had never been any love passages between his wife and Patrice. Still there was something about this friendship that made him cruelly jealous. If he had dared he would not have sent the letter. But what right had he to retain it, when it had been agreed upon that she should write it? What right to deprive this young woman buried in a desert, after having known a most exciting life, of a pleas- ure which she had set her heart on? “She already feels lonely,” thought Godefroid. “Shall Imake her hate me? Alas! since my love Gomichboo KH (E(0)