Sealed Lips — page 91: what you’re looking at

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SEALED LIPS. 83 CHAPTER X. A STARTLING ASSERTION, The other did not get out of their difficulties so well that night. Patrice reached home, he hardly knew how. As he sat dreaming he was aroused from his reverie by a noise at the door. He went into the ante- chamber to receive his friend. He hardly recog- nized Godefroid in the figure that stood motionless in the dim light without the strength to take off his coat. Its weight seemed too heavy for him. The perspiration stood on his forehead, and his teeth chattered with the cold. Patrice had only to glance at his friend to forget the ethereal world in which his thoughts were roaming a few moments before. “Quick!” exclaimed he. “Come to bed! We must waken Baptiste, and have your bed warmed.” Godefroid entered the room first, but did not seem to hear these words. With a wavering step he crossed the dimly lighted room, without noticing the grateful light in the fire-place, and leaned against the framework of the window, puiting his forehead against the icy glass. He seemed likea man overwhelmed by the news of some irreparable - disaster ; O’Farrell had never seen him like this before. (E(@)