Sealed Lips — page 134: what you’re looking at

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126 SHALED LIPS. “You will talk with him and make him under- stand that it is impossible?” “Why impossible?” said O’Farrell, slowly. “You do not like the stage. He will free you from it. He will give you an honored name, a comfortable fortune, a stainless past, and devotion without bounds.” “What I hear is so strange,” interrupted Made- moiselle Sauval, “that I think my reason is giving way. Ido not know what to say, or rather I cannot say what I would. I do not believe that there is an- other man living that would do as you are doing.” “T am only doing what a devoted friend should doin my place. I plead Godefroid’s cause so that he may live and be happy.” “Do you remember,” said she, lowering her eyes, “that evening on the ice? Do you remember what you said? I willbe a devoted brother to you, de- voted to youalone! Why is it that between these two attachments it is the other that has the prefer- ence? Why do you sacrifice your sister to your friend ?” “Because that friend has sacrificed himself for me for fifteen years. Because I owe everything to him; the bread that nourished me; the clothes that I wore, and more yet—the examples of courage and honor which he has shown me, and which have madeamanof me, At this hour he is the weaker one. If you knew how he suffered, how unhappy and lonely he is!” GoOmicbdoo cS (E(0)