Sealed Lips — page 198: what you’re looking at

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190 SEALED LIPS. to contend against an enemy more worthy of her, that was malice and jealousy. While Jenny, who cared less for seeing the sun- rise and going about the place in sabots, arranged the house and picked her flowers, a league was organized against them by the neighbors about Pomeyras. To these very ignorant and virtuous country people, destined to live and die without having gone beyond Bordeaux, there was very little difference between an opera singer and the lowest of concert singers. Both sang on the stage. Meanwhile it was reported that some one had readin a Paris journal that “La Sauval” had buried herself in the country because she had lost her voice. The better disposed were, ready to believe that there had been a civil marriage, while others said that the couple had brought to this virtuous soil the fatal example of free marriages so common in the theatrical world of Paris. Very soon, thanks to Madame Sauval, the cure of the place soon formed the habit of dining once a week at the chateau. This was considered a proof that the household was according to the rules of the church. From thence Godefroid could have had his house full, but he was intractable on that point, and his doors were closed upon all those idiots who had insulted his wife. It was opened one day to receive a deputation that came from Biarritz. These ambassadors pre- Eomicbooks7co