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'How should it be anything to me? Then he hesitated for a while, pausing to think whether or not he would tell the truth to Madame Faragon. He knew that there was no one on earth, setting aside his father and Marie Bromar, to whom he was really so dear as he was to this old woman.
Its efficacy had been such that his wrath had been turned into tenderness. He had been so changed in his purpose, that he had been induced to make an appeal to his father at the cost of his father's enmity. But that appeal had been in vain, and, as he thought of it all, he told himself that on the appointed day Marie Bromar would become the wife of Adrian Urmand.
And she was as convinced as ever she had been, that her uncle would never give his consent to a marriage between her and George Voss. As for George himself, he left her with an assured conviction that she was the promised bride of Adrian Urmand. The world seemed very hard to Marie Bromar when she was left alone.
Adrian Urmand, after his failure with Marie on the preceding evening, had not again gone down-stairs. He had taken himself at once to his bedroom, and had remained there gloomy and unhappy, very angry with Marie Bromar; but, if possible, more angry with Michel Voss. Knowing, as he must have known, how the land lay, why had the innkeeper brought him from Basle to Granpere?
Marie Bromar is the heroine of this little tale; and the reader must be made to have some idea of her as she would have appeared before him had he seen her standing near her uncle in the long room upstairs of the hotel at Granpere. Marie had been fifteen when she was brought from Epinal to Granpere, and had then been a child; but she had now reached her twentieth birthday, and was a woman.
He led the way at once into the house, and Urmand followed, hardly daring to look up into the faces of the persons around him. They were both of them soon in the presence of Madame Voss, but Marie Bromar was not there.
There was, moreover, now, at this present moment, a clear duty on him to be true to the young man who with his consent, and indeed very much at his instance, had become betrothed to Marie Bromar. The reader will understand how ideas of duty, not very clearly looked into or analysed, acted upon his mind.
'Is it not all for yourself, George? 'And why shouldn't you and I be married if we like it? 'I will never like it, said she solemnly, 'if uncle dislikes it. 'Very well, said George. 'There is the horse ready, and now I'm off. So he went, starting just as the day was dawning, and no one saw him on that morning except Marie Bromar.
'And is this to be all the answer you will give me? 'It is the request that I have to make to you, said Marie. 'Then I had better go down to your uncle. And he went down to Michel Voss, leaving Marie Bromar again alone. The people of Colmar think Colmar to be a considerable place, and far be it from us to hint that it is not so.
It would be something to have a niece married to Adrian Urmand, the successful young merchant of Basle. Marie Bromar was already in her aunt's eyes something different from her former self. 'I hope so, aunt. 'Hope so; but it is so, you have accepted him? 'I hope it is right, I mean. 'Of course it is right' said Madame Voss.
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