Sealed Lips — page 262: what you’re looking at

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254 SEALED LIPS. “But youdonot know that this unhappy man, one hour before his death, seemed to repent of all that he had done. Iam assure as J am that I see you, that he wished to change his last will and free me from my promise; I read it in his eyes, and suspected it from what he said. Alas! time failed him, death came too soon. Who knows what supreme, unspeakable regrets he took away with him ?” | “Who knows what was the last thought of his dying will? Keep your oath,my son. You will be astonished when your hair is as white as mine to have suffered so much for so slight a thing as a woman’s beauty. What is a woman compared to peace all your life! What! you sacrificed your love when you were free to gratify it because you did not wish to see the despair of the living, and you would inflict upon the soul a death of torture beside which the most frightful suffering here is only play.” “You will not hear the imprecations of your friend, it is true, nor his reproaches. But his un- quiet soul, unhappy because of you, will be always present watching both of you, your slightest acts, hearing each of your words, assisting at all of your pleasures, and calling upon you and your com- panion the punishment of perjurers. Ah! it is horrible!” _ “What!” said O’Farrell, “is that what is called repose in the other life?” (CONMIE OOO KS. Onn