Sealed Lips — page 69: what you’re looking at

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

SHALED LIPS, 61 than a dinner of three courses.. He emptied several glasses before he could put out of his mind the be- setting vision of two, dark, shining eyes, sweet and chaste under a cloud of blonde hair and the shadow of a velvet bonnet. It semed to him that he could see those eyes become sad in proportion as he drank, but sweeter still. Ah, if he could hope that this clear purity did not lie! How he wished that he could leave the table and go into the night air and cool his throbbing brow. What a stupid fool he was not to know that she belonged to Godefroid? He to come from Cambodia for this! Hecontinued to empty his glass while joyous laughter surrounded him. Soon a mist floated between his eyes and hers. Then, like a last flash of a beacon light, the sweet and charming face disappeared, At last Jenny Sauval is for- gotten. (E(@)