Sealed Lips — page 107: what you’re looking at

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

SHALED LIPS. 99 impossible to say a word to the one who has caused this trouble, otherwise than by the most passionate of vows or the silliest and most trivial of speeches. Between the children with their tops and the coach- man fastened to his seat, watching his mistress from a distance, Patrice could not give himself the pleasure of opening his heart to her. He said for want of better: “Then you are taking a walk, too?” At this schoolboy’s speech, this tragedy princess burst out into a laugh, showing those pretty white teeth which she was not accustomed to expose so generously. “Tt would be useless in me to deny it,” replied she, “even if I would. My mother having informed me that we should not go out together to-day, as she should be absent the greater part of the after- noon, and the carriage not having been counter- manded, appearing at the usual hour before my door, I could not resist this beautiful day, and I came here hoping not to meet any one——” “Oh, you have met nobody,” interrupted Patrice. — “Tam of no account. What is funnier yet is that I came to. this place by Madame Sauval’s advice.” “What story is this you are telling?” “T assure youthat your mother insisted that I should pay the greenhouses a visit.” “Itis not so extraordinary as you think. Yes- terday Prince Kemeneff spoke so enthusiastically of this winter-garden that I came to visit it on his GOmichboo LS (C QO)