Sealed Lips — page 40: what you’re looking at

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32 SEALED LIPS. ~CHAPTER IV. HISTORICAL. Jenny Sauval was at this time twenty-five years old, and justified in a most complete way the opin- ion that Antoine had of her virtue. She was not only wise, but she seemed very little disposed to commit the follies that the critics had spoken of the night before as they recalled her before the curtain many times. “This little one will earn one hundred per cent. more when she loses something.” To which, according to report, one of her great- est admirers, Prince Kenemefi, had replied: “Tf she only could lose her mother !” To be just to Madame Sauval, she resembled in — no way the type usually described of an actress’ mother. She felt with the best faith in the world that her daughter lowered herself in singing upon the stage, even upon the Opera’s. She was very indifferent as to the question of first appearance, competition in roles, engagements and various other more intricate things, which usually occupy the minds of these ladies; she had only one aim— her daughter’s marriage. She had done very little but drive away husbands all her life; first, of GOmMmichboo KS (E(@)