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Of course there's your stepmother, as good a woman as ever lived, and the children; but Marie was somehow the soul of us all. Give us another light, George. I'm blessed if I can keep the fire in the pipe at all. 'And this, thought George, 'is in truth the state of my father's mind! There are three of us concerned who are all equally dear to each other, my father, myself, and Marie Bromar.
'Of course he would wish it, George. How should he not wish it? Marie Bromar never had a franc of her own in her life, and it is not to be expected that he, with a family of young children at his heels, is to give her a dot. 'He will give her something. He will treat her as though she were a daughter. 'Then I think he ought not. But your father was always a romantic, headstrong man.
Now, as he walked along the dark paths of the town garden, something of the truth came upon him. He made no excuse for Marie Bromar. She had given him a vow, and should have been true to her vow, so he said to himself a dozen times. He had never been false. He had shown no sign of falseness.
'Where is Marie Bromar? he asked again, angrily. He knew that it behoved him now to take upon himself at once the real authority of a master of a house. 'She is up-stairs, said Peter, who was straightening a table-cloth. 'Tell her to come down to me, said her uncle. Peter departed immediately, and for a while there was silence in the little room.
Madame Bromar had died, and Minnie Bromar her daughter or Marie as she was always afterwards called had at once been taken into the house at Granpere. Michel never thought twice about it when he was reminded of his promise. 'If I hadn't promised at all, she should come the same, he said.
'He is not above her, said George in a hoarse voice. 'Marie Bromar is nothing to you, George; nothing in blood; nothing beyond a most distant cousin. They do say that she has grown up good-looking. 'Yes; she is a handsome girl. 'When I remember her as a child she was broad and dumpy, and they always come back at last to what they were as children.
George was too clever to pursue the matter any farther, and when he first met Marie Bromar, there was not a word said between them beyond what might have been said between any young persons so related, after an absence of twelve months.
She was only a child when she came, and Michel thought it was very pleasant; but in five years' time she was a woman, and Michel was forced to reflect that it would not be well that there should be another marriage and another family in the house while he was so young himself, there was at this time a third baby in the cradle, and then Marie Bromar had not a franc of dot.
'I will tell you the whole truth, father; and then you shall say yourself whether I have been trying to do mischief, and shall say also whether you will forgive me. You will remember when you told me that I was not to think of Marie Bromar for myself. 'I do remember. 'Well; I had thought of her. If you wanted to prevent that, you were too late. 'You were boys and girls together; that is all.
He cared little now for his father, little for that personal dignity which he had intended to return by his silence, little for pecuniary advantages and prudential motives, in comparison with his strong desire to punish Marie for her perfidy. He would go over to Granpere, and fall among them like a thunderbolt. Like a thunderbolt, at any rate, he would fall upon the head of Marie Bromar.
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