Sealed Lips — page 220: what you’re looking at

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212 SEALED LIPS. my arrival, for he must not have any suspicion. I wish him to keep up the illusion to the end. Watch on your part, and let us do our duty until the last hour. Ishallsee yousoon. My heart is overflow- ing with sorrow that no human being can compre- hend. “ PATRICE.” Godefroid folded up the letter without saying anything, and put it in its envelope with the same precaution that he would have replaced a poisoned dirk in its sheath. His hands did not tremble. His face, calmed by that solemn voice which called him from the tomb, had already a tranquil but majestic solemnity imprinted upon it. A landscape scorched by a burning sun changes its aspect in a second like this, when acloud gathers in the heavens, an- nouncing a storm. “Ah! Itis then the end!” said he, without look- ingatJenny. “I knew very well that it would be short, but I thought that perhaps it would be a little longer. Poor Patrice! he never suspected when he wrote these lines that he was warning.” “God is my witness,” sobbed the young woman, “that it is not my fault that you read them.” He took her in his arms, and pressed her to his heart. “Forgive me; can you forgive me?” he asked. “Forgive meall. Ihave loved you too much, and it is that which is killing me. Ah! this love, if only you do not regret it more than I! A little GEOmichboo KS (E(0)