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28 SHALED LIPS. there if you do not interest yourself and get mea situation in three days’ time.” “Do not fret yourself, I will do so. But at first you must help me to open fifty or sixty letters that have arrived; without you I should be lost. Oh, ) the correspondence——’ _ O’Farrell commenced the work with the enthu- siasm that he showed in everything that he did. Without saying a word he watched his friend as he opened and glanced rapidly over the letters before him. He found Godefroid changed and older. What surprised him the most was to find this peev- ish temper, this disabused frame of mind, in a man for whom everything seemed to smile. His hands trembled slightly, and alternate waves of pallor and warm flushes mounted to his cheeks. Sometimes in order to decipher some handwriting, he used a mag- nifying glass. | “These last years have aged him terribly,” thought Patrice; “he is no longer young. Poor friend !” At this moment the door opened wide, and one could see amass of green and flowers of every shade and description, which seemd to walk of themselves. lt was Antoine’s servant entering loaded with this fragrant burden. He had boxes of roses, baskets of lilies of the valley, whole branches of lilies, and wreaths of violets, with the name of Jenny Sauval traced in golden letters on the satin : GoOmichboo KS (E(0)