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'It is my belief, said she, 'that Marie is always thinking of George. 'Then she had better cease to think of him, said Michel; 'for George is not thinking of her. He said nothing farther, but resolved to speak his own mind freely to Marie Bromar.
He had considered himself justified in shaking his head, but would not be so false as to give in words the assurance which Adrian had asked. That night he discussed the matter with his wife, declaring it as his purpose that Marie Bromar should marry Adrian Urmand. 'It is impossible that she should do better, said Michel. 'It would be very well, said Madame Voss. 'Very well!
Michel Voss, Protestant though he was, had not the slightest objection to giving M. le Cure his Sunday dinner, on condition that M. le Cure on these occasions would confine his conversation to open subjects. M. le Cure was quite willing to eat his dinner and give no offence. A word too must be said of Marie Bromar before we begin our story.
'Meaning of what? asked Michel. 'I don't understand it I don't understand it at all, said Urmand. 'Don't understand what? said Michel. The two lovers were still holding each other's hands; but Michel had not seen it; or, seeing it, had not observed it. 'Am I to understand that Marie Bromar is betrothed to me, or not? demanded Adrian.
A lad of about fifteen, who was known in Granpere as the waiter at the Lion d'Or, looked after the two strangers and the young men, and Marie Bromar, who herself had arranged the board, stood at the top of the room, by a second table, and dispensed the soup.
'I am sure you do not buy without a profit, said Marie Bromar, when she found that he was silent. 'And then the poor people, who have to pay so dear for everything! She was making a violent attempt to keep him on the ground of his customers and his purchases. 'There was another thing that I wanted to say to you, Marie, he began at last abruptly.
She had borne many of a woman's cares, and had known much of woman's sorrows before she had become wife to Michel Voss; and then when the babes came, and she had settled down as mistress of that large household, and taught herself to regard George Voss and Marie Bromar almost as her own children, all idea that she was much younger than her husband departed from her.
'Should anything happen to Marie, she had said to Michel Voss, before she gave him her troth, 'you will let Minnie Bromar come to me? Michel Voss, who was then hotly in love with his hoped-for bride hotly in love in spite of his four- and-forty years gave the required promise. The said 'something' which had been suspected had happened.
Before the supper was over, Adrian Urmand was talking glibly enough; and it really seemed as though the terrible misfortunes of the Lion d'Or would arrange themselves comfortably after all. When supper was done, the father, son, and the discarded lover smoked their pipes together amicably in the billiard room. There was not a word said then by either of them in connection with Marie Bromar.
Even though it were true, no one would have cared to tell him. She might have been married twice over, and no one in Granpere would have sent him word. So he declared to himself. And yet Marie Bromar had once sworn to him that she loved him, and would be his for ever and ever; and, though he had left her in dudgeon, with black looks, without a kind word of farewell, yet he had believed her.
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