Sealed Lips — page 133: what you’re looking at

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

SHALED LIPS. 125 woman it certainly was not Jenny, and yet she re- plied, in an almost indifferent tone of voice: “Men very rarely kill themselves for that; above all at his age.” — “Qn the contray, itis at his age that they do it, when age has not closed their hearts. Godefroid is exactly the one to do it. Without God, without family or consolation, disappointed in the dearest hope of his life, never having undergone certain struggles, he is lost if you repulse him, he is dead; it is infallible, it is true.” “Mon Dieu!” said she, tremblingly, “my mother has gone——” | “Your mother has gone to give him hope. I met her on the way, and as it was a question that con- cerned the life of my friend I took it upon myself to change the message which she confided to me.” “You did that!” exclaimed Jenny, in a broken tone; “you have done that! Oh, unfortunate!” Patrice gathered up these words one by one as so many vows of love. He engraved them in his memory to be his supreme consolation in some dis- tant place where he should go to end his days. As he kept silent she said: “T understand; you wanted to calm him, to pre- pare him, and gain time. You did just right. Poor man! Ah! Diew! I should never console myself. if—— Who ever would have suspected such a thing of him.