Sealed Lips — page 249: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 241 angry at, for his last provision, not for the material results to her detriment, but for this jealousy that seemed to impose fidelity to the dead, at the risk of forfeit. The other irritated her by his indifference which was contirmed more and more as the weeks rolled by. : In order to hear from Patrice, Jenny was obliged to write the firsé letter. Since then the young man’s letters had grown further and further apart. One would almost suppose that he wished to let the correspondence drop entirely. When he spoke of Godefroid it was with a constraint easily seen be- tween the lines. One day, struck by this coldness, she asked herself: “Can it be possible that he was not satisfied with the souvenirs of little value left him by his friend? Is he visiting his disappointment upon me?” This supposition seemed to her like an injury, and she refused to believe it. At least one thing was evident. “He has never loved me!” sighed she. “And I have obstinately believed in this idea of a generous falsehood. What is there to prevent his speaking now ?” | She suffered the double humiliation of a love that it was impossible to stifle, ridiculous after having been almost guilty, and the consciousness of her great error. The twelfth month of her widowhood was passing away. Jenny felt that it was time to make an GoOmichboo KS (E(@)