Sealed Lips — page 44: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

36 SEALED LIPS. Although she did not sin by excess of grief the Roumanian seemed for some time crushed by her husband’s death. She lived for several years in a very retired way in a little house that her husband owned in Bearn, seeing nobody and seeming to make it a point to be forgotten. Then suddenly she returned to Paris to educate her daughter, she said. In fact, the child had the very best masters, al- though her father died without leaving any fortune. But—details unknown—a large enough sum of money fell, if not from heaven, from the hands of some generous unknown, into Martscha’s hands. The widow and the orphan lived comfortably upon it. About this time Jenny became so beautiful that her mother realized that she had a future before her. Meanwhile Madame Sauval began to gain ex- perience, having recognized by numerous mortifica- tions that Paris was not Roumania, and that she had counted too much at the beginning of her career upon her own intelligence and the foolish- ness of others. It was at this time that she met Godefroid, thanks to her lucky star, a star which always served her like a lantern. The composer was very lonely after Patrice’s departure, not yet having become accus- tomed to missing one of his greatest interests in life. On her side Madame Sauval saw that she was farther away than ever from the worldly position that she had been seeking for the past twenty GOmicboo KH (EO)