Sealed Lips — page 294: what you’re looking at

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286 : SEALED LIPS. hardly wait to read the note that Martscha slipped into his hand, trembling with rage. He sighed, and an expression of joy passed over his face as he read the lines that had been so labori- ously penned. He placed the paper in his pocket which con- © tained this last will: “T revoke, in case that my beloved wife should contract a second marriage with Patrice O’Farrell, the clause of disinheritance contained in my will. I wish to show by that that I wish and advise this union which will make, I have every reéson to believe, the two people that I love best in this world -happy. May they pardon and remember me.” This codicil, dated and signed, was an authentic act, and left Godefroid’s widow mistress of her fortune, if she married Patrice, but not if she mar- ried any other—Kemeneff, for example. Like a prudent woman, Martscha had taken care not to destroy the paper. One nevercan tell who may live nor who may die. In default of the prince, O’Farrell would be a suitable husband for Madame Godeiroid. Poor himself, he would bring riches with him. If they were obliged to renounce the prince, Jenny would regain Pomeyras—happiness into the bargain. Such were Madame Sauval’s re- flections the very evening of Godefroid’s death. Pere Chryscstome saw it all at a glance and his heart was filled with bitter disgust when he thought of the past. Eomichbooks (o)