Sealed Lips — page 204: what you’re looking at

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196 SEALED LIPS. were obliged to leave the mountains on account of the cold. Jenny was painfully surprised to see how much her husband suffered from it, for she had thought that his health was more permanently re- established. He seemed profoundly discouraged by this relapse, although it was not serious apparently. He wished tostop in Paufor a day. There, for the first time since their marriage, he left Jenny alone the entire morning. On the return of the guilty one she complained in an affectionate way. “Why did you not employ the time to write to Algeria?” said he. She did not reply, judging from his air that he was in one of his sober moods. She did not dare ask him where he had been, and by this reserve she saved him the trouble of lying. He had prom- ised himself that nobody should know how or where he passed his morning, for he had been with his lawyer, and had made his will.