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SHALED LIPS. 195 mv wife regret her past, and if she returns home with a taste for this society which she has just entered. Thatis the way that I should surely lose her.” He was soon reassured, for Jenny left Biarritz without any regrets; she even refused her hus- band’s offer to remain a few days longer. “If you wish to make me very happy,” said she— it was the first request that she had ever made— “let us take a roundabout way home. I would like to see my dear mountains again.” | The next day Madame Sauval went home alone, and the couple plunged into the depths of the Pyrenees, choosing for their stopping places the vil- lages iguored by the crowd. Jenny took great pleasure in doing the honors of the grand sights to her husband, enjoying them herself with artistic enthusiasm. Godefroid noticed that evenin the midst of the sublime horrors of Maladetta and the whirl of fetes at Biarritz that she did not forget O’Farrell. She watched for the arrival of the African mail with the same interest, and in order to reply the usual day she sat up two hours in spite | of her fatigue from a tiresome excursion, when Godefroid urged her to go to bed, saying that for once Patrice could miss a letter. “Oh, no,” replied the young wife. “He must never think, even for twenty-four hours, that you have forgotten him.” Toward the end of September the two tourists GEoOmichboo KS (E(0)