Sealed Lips — page 206: what you’re looking at

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198 SHALED LIPS. Sauval. “At Biarritz he offered you much more than that.” “According to that there are twenty-five people that I ought to invite to dine with us. If I com- mence with one——” All discussion was displeasing to Jenny, what- ever its causes, so she made a pretext to leave, pre- ferring not to be consulted. “Now, then, what notion have you taken into your head?” asked his mother-in-law when they were alone. “Are you jealous? Has my daughter given you any reason to be so? If you are 1s it pru- dent for you to show it? In your position a man cannot shut the door in the face of a man of posi- tion like the Czar’s chamberlain. It is not your intention, I fancy, to drop your profession now, at least your ambition is not limited to having your music applauded inthe casino? At St. Petersburg the prince might be of great service to you. Then, to tell the truth, he amuses Jenny, who, between you and me, sighs a little for olden times. To leave the theater was all very well, she wished to do so, and I am rejoiced that she was able to doit. From there to aconvent is quite a step; I fear you are tempted sometimes to forget it.” Madame Sauval did not always succeed in con- vincing her adversaries when she reasoned with them, but she got them in such a state of lassitude that they were compelled to submit. Godefroid violded, thinking that peace to an honest man was Eomichooksrco