Sealed Lips — page 68: what you’re looking at

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60 SEALED LIPS. came with them but were now installed in satin, lined coupes, rolling back with all the airs of duchesses. “Here is the little relative,” exclaimed one young cirl, still unprovided with a carriage. “All alone and so late! Beware of the silly things.” Then all of them burst into laughter. “You saucy little baggages you!” returned Patrice, whose timidity had all disappeared. “ Now, then, who comes to supper? Ah! you are the ones who are afraid now, are you?” They ought to have been afraid, for the gentle- man, in giving this unceremonious invitation, had his hands on his hips and a triumphant countenance that looked more like a musketeer’s than a timid young man’s. His eyes sparkled as Robinson Crusoe’s must have done upon leaving his island and first seeing a white face. The dancers, like our fathers, the Franks, feared nothing; of the four who chanced to be there, four accepted the supper, leaving until later their ex- planations to those whom it concerned. Patrice was not unlucky. One of his guests was pretty, and two were bright and witty. He took the pretty one’s arm, and the rest followed together; it was only a short distance to the Cafe de la Paix. Some moments later these girls commenced their supper, and ate as girls do who have only had a poor dinner. Patrice, on his part, was contented to drink, having something heavier in his stomach GOmicboo KS (E(@)