Sealed Lips — page 161: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS, 153 As he entered the mayor’s office Godefroid walked as if in an unknown and supernatural world. He asked himself how this person who sat reading papers behind a desk and looked like all other people, could accomplish an act worthy of God, and throw by one word this woman that he had adored for years into hisarms. He pronounced with im- patient avidity the word that was to bind him for- ever to the idol of his heart and eyes. It was Jenny’s turn to reply to the important question. But before giving up her liberty, while they ques- tioned her as to the spelling of her name, she bent her charming head slightly forward, and sought Patrice’s face, who stood a few paces from her. It seemed as if the victim while already at the altar, turned to make a last appeal for her liberty. For a second the energy of this appeal was heart- breaking to the young man. He understood that his beloved wished him to save her. He remem- bered the words that she had spoken one day: “Whatever the hour may be it will be sufficient if you move one finger !” Then he saw for the last time what might have been his future. A rapid glance showed him long vears of happiness by the side of this woman, who implored him by a look, who was ready to follow him to the ends of the earth. Then another vision rose up before him, Godefroid dying of despair, and cursing him with his last breath, his heart full of rage against this—— (Cl O) Eomicbooks