Sealed Lips — page 218: what you’re looking at

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210 . SEALED LIPS. notice of her tears. He continued in the same harsh, inflexible voice: : “T am unhappier than you are, and I do not merit it. Give me that letter.” “ Antoine,” said she, placing her hand on her hus- band’s arm, “I beg of you do not get excited. Poor friend, dear in spite of all. Is it possible that you no longer esteem the wife that you loved?” “All women are deceitful; all men betray them. Life is one long falsehood. My experience is like others’; but I wish to know my disgrace, to relish it, to learn just how far it goes, to know how long I have wallowed in it. If this proof that I have should escape me do you think that that miserable fop of a Kemeneff would be spared? Ah! Ah! I have the man that you love now, do you see! Yes, I will kill him! Do you hear?” “Yes, alas! yes, I hear you,” groaned she. “My God! What shall I do? You have confidence in my mother. Gotober. Before you she shall open and read the contents of this letter. If she swears to you that these lines are only a response written by the most loyal of hands in answer to a most hon- est demand——” “YT have no confidence in anybody,” interrupted Godefroid. “The letter!” “Well, here it is,” said his wife. “I have done the best in my power; God is my witness.” At first as he glanced at the address Godefroid GoOmichboo KS (€(@)