Sealed Lips — page 42: what you’re looking at

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34 SEALED LIPS. tially practical, had shone forth at the time of her first marriage with a French diplomat, a good, worthy fellow who had honored her with his choice, without having studied her like a book or turning her like aglove. This honest young fel- low, whose health was not strong and whose intel- ligence equaled his health, believed all that one could wish him to believe—that he was as strong as Hercules, as penetrating as a Metternich, and sure to attain some great embassy if only he had the — chance to marry a woman cut out after the pattern of Marshal Guebriant’s wife. He believed many other things which required less strong faith, and the marriage accomplished, his mother-in-law buried, he took his bride to Paris, upon which she had counted more than all the rest. Unfortunately he died almost immediately—that is, two or three years sooner than the Roumanian had fixed upon. ~ She was left without a home, money, position, or any other aid to entering society; her only advan- tage was a very old name in the book of heraldry, but too new upon visting cards to be of advantage to her. Nevertheless she was far from being frightened at the task, for she thought herself stili in Rou- mania, where every one cited her as the most beautiful of women. In Paris she saw immediately that she must come down a peg. Her face created so slight asensation in places where she showed herself that she was at first painfully surprised. To GOmicbdoo KS (C(O)