Sealed Lips — page 295: what you’re looking at

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SHALED LIPS. 287 “Mon Dieu!” prayed he, “you have not wished to leave anything that would punish me, even the shame of seeing to what a point I was the dupe of this unworthy creature. Give me once more the peace of my solitary expiation, and this time may 1 have finished with the world!” When Jenny saw her mother there was no need of any question to know that the priest had been there. Madame Sauval seemed to have suddenly lost all energy and interest in life. Jenny did nothing to know the result of that interview, as much as she wished to know her fate, but she was incapable of resting five minutes in the same place. As she saw the condition of the vanquished one, she ~ felt great hope renewed in her. Toward the middle of the afternoon she received a strange missive—a page from a torn breviary, upon which she read the psalm, “Nunc dimittis.” At the bottom of the page was written, “ Halle- lujah! hallelujah! Wait!” - It was thus that this faithful heart knew her hap- piness was near. Tears rolled down her cheeks, but at first her gratitude turned toward this priest whose voice and slightest gestures made mysterious chords vibrate in her heart. A mystery that would never be cleared in this world. She waited as he had said, but one may believe that the days were long for her; she lived, dreamed, and went to sleep with this thought. (E(@)