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132 SEALED LIPS. He crossed the threshoid, and carried away with him that cry of joy, weak, but at the same time harrowing, that he had just heard. CHAPTER XV. OUTBURST OF SARCASM. At last it was ended. Often Patrice would go over in his mind the tor- tures of that long half hour and think howif he had known of them in advance he could never have braved them. He would have disappeared without saying a word, and let events take care of them- selves, removing by his departure all obtacles that Godefroid could consider him responsible for. But to see what he had just seen, to complete the work that would make his heart bleed to the end of his life, to he with such cruelty, to sacrifice with such merciless barbarity! No, never, had he foreseen it, would he ever have undertaken such a task. While Jenny cried bitterly, over her heart but just awakened, now dead, her executioner, who was twice as much to be pitied, because he killed at the same blow two victims, was walking away quickly from the house, like a person whose in- stinct guides rather than the will. He walked for a long time, crossed squares, followed avenues, (EO MIE OOO KS. (eolnn