Sealed Lips — page 199: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 191 sented themselves with many apologies for having come unannounced. Perhaps their visit was not a surprise to all, for Madame Sauval had not put her foot outside the house that day, and her daugh- ter, who knew her well, expected something was going to happen when she saw her mother’s toilet. Godefroid came into the room, and received the men in a sulky manner, while they saluted him with low bows and called him “dear master.” “We are organizing,” said they, “a concert for the benefit of our poor people. If we could only announce on our programme the grand aria for Adossides by Madame Godefroid, people would come from Madrid, and the receipts would be im- mense.” Godefroid thought it over, weighing the pros and cons as to his decision. “You have not read the Paris journals then, gentlemen?” said the queen mother, with majestic irony. “They say that my daughter has lost her voice, and that is why she married.” At these cunningly calculated words Godefroid seemed to emerge from his indecision. Jenny came in just then, and they almost prostrated themselves before her. When she knew of their request she looked at her husband with the look of one who only wishes to be persuaded. This opportunity to amuse herself tempted her, and more yet, the idea of sing- ing for the poor as a great lady, after having sung for the rich for money, pleased her. The day was EGomichboo KS (G0)