Sealed Lips — page 303: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 295 CHAPTER XXXII. “DEAD!” O’Farrell never saw Madame Sauval again. She went quietly to Roumania soon after his return. This departure cast a shadow over the future coun- tess’ joy, but it was indispensable in the interests of all and the few who knew Jenny’s past. What would they have said had they known the whole history? The lovers had one other regret. They wished that Pere Chrysostome should bless their union. Before fixing the date of the ceremony Patrice wrote him and asked him to make the voyage, and sent’ him the means to do so. But the good man replied by a formal refusal of this request, and what was most astonishing the letter was addressed to Jenny: “What you ask of me would be too great a pleas- ure for an old man who must expiate his sins. Three years of penance would not pay for the sacri- fice that I impose upon myself in not coming to you upon that day. You will never know how much pleasure Trenounce. Your happiness, if my pray- ers are heard, will continue to increase. Be happy. And you, my daughter”—these words were hardly legible, the priest’s hand trembled so—“do not for- GOmicboo KS (E(0)