Sealed Lips — page 60: what you’re looking at

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52 SEALED LIPS. with a mocking smile, awoke him from his reverie. He mounted the steps quickly, not realizing that he rubbed his eyes as if just awakening. “Well?” asked the composer, as he appeared. “She is delighted to know that your indisposition is not serious.” “What did she say?” 7 “That she would sing like an angel this evening.” “Was her mother with her?’ “No, thank the Lord!” “Why, thank the Lord?” “Because I cannot endure her.” “What has she done?” “That would be the finishing stroke if she nad done anything. Have you never detested people who have never done anything?” Godefroid shrugged his shoulders without reply- ing, knowing that Patrice was subject to sudden likes and dislikes. Then he walked toward the dining-room, saying to himself, with a satisfied air: “He did not stay long.” He did not suspect, nobody suspected at that time, that Patrice had staid full long enough. (EOMNIE OOO KS5(E0)