Sealed Lips — page 26: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

18 SHALED LIPS. by the death of the countess and her husband. Their only child, young Patrice, was then only fifteen years old, and alone in the world. Antoine adopted him, and assumed most seriously the duties of afather; he renounced, in order to remove his ward from all unfavorable contact, the pleasures which his reputation as a renowned artist opened to him in more than one part of the globe. Until the last of the O’Farrells attained his majority his adopted father lead the life of arecluse. Sometimes this giving up of all pleasures seemed hard in his youth, but he was largely recompensed for it by the regularity and opportunities to work, with nothing to interrupt him. One thing remained to be seen —would not his heart and unknown senses, con- demned to solitude, some day reclaim the arrears a hundred fold? At all events when the young orphan was twenty- one years old he left his home to seek his fortune. Even after his departure Godefroid continued to work as seriously as ever. The most elevated branches of his largely developed nature seemed to have singularly weakened the frantic growth of his vigor. Thus by patient culture the ground refuses its strength to the brilliant but sterile flowers, keep- ing its richness for the branches of precious buds. ft was a strange thing! This great artist, ap- plauded by everybody, remained good, timid, and artless, and was always ready to assist others. He passed for a misanthrope and a haughty, proud CONNIE OOO KS, (eoOlnn