Sealed Lips — page 209: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS. 201 “T would like to be in his place this moment,” said the prince, with a courtly salute, “since you think of him.” He very politely engaged Madame Sauval in con- versation, who blushed with rage as Jenny, lean- ing on her husband’s arm, listened. to the exile’s letter. | When the last line was finished she returned to the prince, and devoted herself to him with her per- fect grace until the equipage, more dazzling than ever, drove up to the steps with its porch covered — with clematis. Meanwhile autumn was drawing toaclose. Ina climate less mild they would have already felt the approach of winter. Many times the prince’s trot- ters went over the road that they knew every turn of so wellnow. Kemeneff, unless he had been very conceited, and that was not one of his faults, could not flatter himself that Jenny ever showed the slightest agitation in his presence, but she made no attempt to conceal her friendship for him. As to Godefroid, in spite of the urgent request of Jenny and her mother—his gloomy spirits made them uneasy—he applied himself constantly to work. Every day his health showed more and more unfavorable symptoms, but he seemed-to dis- regard them. They sent several times for one of the best physicians in Pau to come to see him. He pretended to say before Godefroid that they were unnecessarily alarmed, but in his private confer- GOMmIGcHDoOoks (€(0) im