Sealed Lips — page 152: what you’re looking at

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144 | SEALED LIPS. pense of the journey, for now from a feeling easily understood, the young man would not accept aid from his friend’s purse. He did not have to search long; thanks to the friends that he had made among people in colonial enterprises, he found a situation that under less dramatic circumstances he would have disdained. It concerned the direction of a forest in Algeria, granted to a society whose administrators were more or less millionaires and consequently ama- teurs in quiet life, in no haste to leave the boule- vard or the opera for the mountains. Three days after his last visit to Rue de Vienne, Patrice was in the heat of business transactions, and saw Godefroid only at diner; then the conver- sation between the two friends was of such a weari- some character that neither felt the slightest desire to prolong it longer than necessary. The composer was secretly annoyed at his companion’s obstinacy in not speaking to him of his approaching mar- riage, and in this affected silence he thought he saw anger or disapprobation. He, to retaliate, avoided questioning the man as to his own plans; Patrice, although he had other griefs more bitter, was deeply hurt at his want of interest. Finally the day arrived that Mademoiselle Sauval was to give her definite response. “Has she replied yet?” O’Farrell would ask him- self as he went from office to bank. “Has the final answer been spoken? Will some supreme revolt GoOmichboo KS (E(@)