Sealed Lips — page 267: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS. 259 she did not communicate her resolution to him directly, he smiled sadly, and thought: “She is doing her very best to hate me. I ought to wish that she may succeed.” But he wished nothing of the kind. On the con- trary, he asked himself what would happen if he should leave Algeria and goand say to the future princess: “Here 1 am! Leave Kemeneff and his millions, and come with me into my desert.” Two years before he would have been unable to have prevented himself from doing thus, but long months passed in solitude and work at the foot of the Atlas mountains calms the spirit and senses of aman. He still loved, ana was only too sure that he should do so all his life, only he was used to his trouble, he was like those cripples who have made up their minds to be lame, and go through the world with one leg shorter than the other rather than spend their money on a doctor. When Kemeneff’s love allowed him to think, he thought that his titles, his millions, and even him- self, were received in a very cool manner. But Madame Sauval became his confident, and hada word of consolation for him. “What do you complain of?” said she. “Instead of waiting a year you are let off with three months. If there is any feeling of indifference I must admit that I know nothing about it. My daughter is not of the age to jump with joy like a schoolgirl on the Gomicbooks (E(0)