Sealed Lips — page 48: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

40 SEALED LIPS. This indolent person arose and showed some in- terest at seeing Godefroid enter followed- by a stranger. But as soon as he pronounced the name O’Farrell, her curiosity became suspicious. For several years it had been her object to fill the place of this absent one whose history she had not been long in learning. This sudden return did not please her. | While Godefroid talked with his protegee the mother took possession of the young man, so long and so well that, as he descended the stairs to go home, he could not have told you whether the Princess Adossides resembled her photograph or not. To make up for it Madame Sauval could have given his picture, both physical and moral, from his head to his heels. Ay, even his biography and that of his family, dating from the fall of the Stuarts. She decided that he had a warm, faithful, and sincere heart, that he was one of those poetical persons who seek all their lives to make the ideal rhyme with the reality, not without their smarting for it, of course. She decided at the same time that he was too good-looking, and had not money enough to be admitted there on an intimate footing, where ‘there was a flower opening worthy of a prince with his millions. For the good lady did not intend that her daughter should sing until old, that she might earn money enough to buy her husband’s cigars. Nevertheless she was convinced that Patrice was a man to be humored on account of the influence that GOmicboo KS (E(@)