Sealed Lips — page 84: what you’re looking at

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76 SHALED. LIPS. from joy. But without being offended on this occa- sion, with his habitual frankness, he replied: “Alas! madam, there are a hundred reasons why I could not be generous, even to dancers. All that is pure invention. I could not tell you the names of three of these young women.” “That is not what they say.” “Ah! madam, Il swear to you; but what will they not say in those frightful greenrooms? I have not the pretension to tell you, for since the first day I had the honor to meet you, I could not help pity- ing a woman with your tastes, education, and man- ners, condemned to frequent such a place.” “It is my poor daughter that you must pity, mon- sieur. She isso little fitted for the stage. Others become teachers; she has become a singer, or rather—but it would be bad taste to blame our friend Godefroid, who urged her to this step. Nat- urally, he sees nothing but music. What a calam- ity it is to lose one’s fortune!” | “T know something about it,” said Patrice, laugh- ing. “You have met with great reverses, then?” ques- tioned the good soul, captivated by all this wise diplomacy. “They could not have been more complete. A man can get over’ such difficulties, but a woman——” | “And above all one that has been brought up like (EOLA MINCE! NOK] KS4(E00)