Sealed Lips — page 88: what you’re looking at

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80 SEALED LIPS. She said no more, for it was not the time nor the place to discuss matters. Patrice, after what she had heard, was not precisely worthy of confidence. He, suspecting her hostile feeling, asked: “Do you not feel perfectly safe with me?” “That depends upon bow you mean it,” said she. “T have confidence in your strength and dex- terity——” All at once she noticed that Patrice was going in his stocking feet. 7 “Mou Dieu!” exclaimed she. “You are playing with your life. Stop—I will not——” He replied, resisting a strong desire to press her to his heart: “You need not be uneasy as to my life. I would give it to you to spare you one hour’s suffering. Believe me, I am devoted to vou as a brother, and devoted to you alone.” “To me alone? to me alone?” said she, as she knit her beautiful eyebrows. “I swear it to you,” protested he. “If any one has ever said to the contrary, itis an odious false- hood. You must have confidence in me. If you could know how much J—I would like your friend ship.” “You merit it this evening,” said she, sincerely moved. “But who knows? perhaps now you are thinking of your friend Godefroid. How awkward it would befor himif I could not sing to-morrow night.” (€ Q) (COANE NOON KS