Sealed Lips — page 279: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIFS, 271 “An unrequited love, perhaps?” asked the young woman as she turned the gold pieces one by one, as if to assure herself that none were counterfeit. “Unrequited because he willed it so. He sacri- ficed love to friendship, then his heart bled almost its last drop. To avoid all deception he left; to for- get he worked.” “Did he forget?” asked Jenny, ina changed voice. . “He has not forgotten. Already you are affected, and the story has scarcely commenced. - Listen to the rest. After being married some months the friend on account of many griefs fell ill, and died. You think, do you not, that these two people, who loved each other so much, are at last united 2” “Why not?” asked Godefroid’s widow, breath- lessly. “Here the drama commences, one can hardly believe who has not known the tempest of passion, trouble, and egotism. Like those misers who wish their treasures buried with them, this unhappy man, whois nomore, torn by atrocious suspicions and jealousy, wished that his friend, who is in Algeria, should sacrifice himself forever by making avow. This young man swore, not foreseeing that he would so soon pay for his generosity by bitter tears. Heswore that his friend’s wife, the apple of discord between them, should always be a stranger to him, even if death made her free.” Jenny arose from her chair, pale with anger. Gomichooks (E(@)