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232 SEALED LIPS. that one of his fingers had a spot of ink on it, still moist. “What!” exclaimed she, taking the soiled finger softly in her hand, “is this the way they perform your toilet! It was hardly worth while to be so long. You look like a neglected schoolboy. Give me abrushand some soap! This time your wife will be of some use!” She started to go into the dressing-room, but he held her with what remaining force he had. “My wife, my beloved wife!” sighed he, giving Jenny a look that had as much love in it as human eyes could contain. When he had gazed at her for several moments he said, in a singularly sweet and quiet voice, these words which the young wife would remember in days to come:. “Dearest treasure of my life, leave this stain as itis. I made it by giving those I love the last proof of my affection, that they may be happy when I am nomore. Do you hear me, Jenny? let this ‘stain remain on my finger. It will be the last seal of my passport, if what you have said so often, that the step that I am going to take is only a vovage toward another life. I would like to go with this mark upon me.” A cruel agony, ‘like the grasp of an enemy’s hand, obliged him to stop. His features changed so quickly that the young wife nearly fainted, for it seemed to her that the Godefroid that she had al- Eomicbooks.com