Sealed Lips — page 64: what you’re looking at

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56 SEALED LIPS. “Do not do anything to disgrace me,” said Gode- froid, taking up his paternal role. One of the young girls heard him. In less than five minutes the report spread about that this good- looking, tall young man was the composer’s nephew. From thence it was to be seen with which he would be “foolish,” but he was notin the mood for it. Naturally they became excited; not modest enough. to imagine that he could be inattentive to all their charms, these silly creatures declared that the new- comer was timid. Immediately sweet looks and jokes were showered upon him. What could he do but show that he was not a coward? To tell the truth, he managed it very well, until Jenny Sauval, coming upon the stage, saw this other Telamaque sporting with a band of nymphs. She stopped sud- denly at the sight, when her mother asked: “What is it, my dear?” “Nothing; my train was caught.” But Patrice, at the approach of his idol, forgot all the rest, and only had eyes for the radiant Ados- sides whose dress was not caught again. At the end of the act Godefroid motioned to him that he wished to speak to him: “Will you dome the favor to go out and stroll around the lobbies and listen to what is said about the piece?” Five minutes later O’Farrell was mixing with the crowd of dress-coats. During his six years’ absence Patrice’s long silky, blonde beard had had time to GoOmicboo KS (E(@)