Sealed Lips — page 284: what you’re looking at

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276 SEALED LIPS. proof of my affection, that they may be happy after 1 am gone.” Where was this proof? In the letter written to the notary, asking him to come quickly? This was Madame Sauval’s explanation. | Jenny had had, for some time, other sentiments than that of blind confidence in her mother. She knew the greediness of her ambition, the unscru- pulous ease that she showed in her choice of argu- ments. Whatif this mother, eager for grandeur and riches for herself and daughter, had hed! If those last lines written by Godefroid were some- thing besides a letter to his notary—a useless letter, since Patrice had gone to Pau in person! If, on the contrary, the dying man had written them after his friend’s departure, when he felt that his moments were numbered! If they had been confided to the one who assisted his trembling hand! The unhappy man had so much confidence in Madame Sauval. “Would my mother dare?” The young woman’s only response to this ques- tion was toclose her eyes and sigh. This paper, supposing that it existed, would render Kemeneff’s chances very doubtful. Madame Sauval was not ignorant of this fact, as she knew her daughter’s heart. Meanwhile Jenny remembered the fright- ened expression on her mother’s face at Pomeyras, at the time when the signature was about to be placed to the marriage document, and was sud- denly deferred. CORNICE ONO KS. conn