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12 SEALED LIPS. “Let us go; it will be my re-entrance into civilizeu society.” On Thursday evening the two friends found the baroness in full dress at the entrance to a suite of brilliantly lighted parlors, filled with a compact crowd. — “Let us goaway,” said the composer; “this is what she calls morning dress and two lamps. They will tell her——” But asentinel was lying in wait for Godefroid ; for the lady of the house pounced upon him even in the antechamber; he was seized and handcuffed by an opulent arm, loaded with numberless brace- lets, and made a sensational entrance followed by the faithful Patrice. In the back room, in the holy of holies reserved for persons of note, Jenny Sauval occupied the center of a group of men, who. vied with each other for a glance from her eyes. She was sitting upright in her chair, with the sad look of an unthroned queen; she talked very little and gave her perpetual unfinished smile; she was simply dressed in black satin and jet; nevertheless every eye inthe room was turned upon her. All the other invited guests of the baroness were van- quished by her charms. They tired their eyes study- ing Jenny’s hair and the way it was dressed, the harmonious line traced by the dark goods against the milky whiteness of her neck and arms, even the draping of her skirt. The dress was not new, and no famous hair-dresser had twisted her hair so care- ‘ GOmichboo KS (E(@)