Sealed Lips — page 207: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS, 159 well worth a dinner even if given to an ardent prince. “We shall expect you day after to-morrow,” wrote he forthwith to Kemeneff. “I fear that the little cottage where we live”—this was a revenge on his mother-in-law—* will seem a trifle small be- side your villa. But you will receive the very best that we can offer. <A carriage will meet you at the station.” | The next day but one the carriage returned empty from the station, but almost immediately a phaeton drawn by two trotters dashed up the oak drive. “What!” exclaimed Godefroid, “did you drive all this distance?” “Oh!” said Kemeneff, with a slightly affected in- difference, “ten leagues is nothing for us.” Almost immediately two men appeared, and led the horses away to the yard between the house and stable. “Three hours’ work!” said one of them to his companion. “Yes,” said the other, looking at the horses cov- ered with foam with a discouraged air. “Since the day these horses were put in our stables it is the first time that he has not been afraid that they would moisten their skin. It must be that this little lady has caught him fast.” Upon reaching this conclusion they commenced erooming the horses, while old Pierre, with his hands in his vest pockets and cap over his eyes, watched Eomicbooks:co