Sealed Lips — page 244: what you’re looking at

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236 SEALED LIPS. glasses, and found upon the paper the passage re- ferred to: , “Only in case of a.second marriage the wife will lose all rights to the estate, which will be divided in equal parts between two of the relatives of the deceased.”’ The notary had had experience in such cases as this, so took off his glasses and took his hat per- fectly indifferent as to braving the storm. But he did not know Martscha. She had had time to re- flect. She said to herself that Kemeneff would be reduced some hundred thousand francs. She quietly replaced the handkerchief, parsimoniosuly wet with tears, in her pocket, from which she had taken ita little too soon. As she did so her hand touched the envelope that she had forgotten and of whose contents she was ignorant, for it was not addressed to her. Her first impulse was to tell Maubourguet by whose hand and under what circumstances she had received the mysterious paper. Her usual prudence stopped this impulse. “Kh! eh!” thought she. “That is a thing to be seen. We will not bein a hurry.” She took her lamp and stepped aside to let the notary pass before her: “Pardon me, monsieur, if I do not detain you longer. But just now there are so many thousand little details——” Without troubling herself as to what this man GoOmichboo cS (E(@)