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I shall not be at the marriage, but I should like to see them first. I shall go the day after to-morrow. And he went to Granpere on the day he fixed. 'Probably one night only, but I won't make any promise, George had said to Madame Faragon when she asked him how long he intended to stay at Granpere.
If this traveller or that says a word to her personally in complaint, she looks as sour as death, and declines to open her mouth in reply; but when that traveller's back is turned, the things that Madame Faragon can say about the upstart coxcombry of the wretch, and as to the want of all real comforts which she is sure prevails in the home quarters of that ill-starred complaining traveller, are proof to those who hear them that the old landlady has not as yet lost all her energy.
Madame Faragon was to be allowed to sit in the little room downstairs, to scold the servants, and to make the strangers from a distance believe that her authority was unimpaired. She was also to receive a moderate annual pension in money in addition to her board and lodging.
He had learned from her that, were she left to herself, she would give herself with all her heart to him. But she would not be left to herself, and he only knew now that Adrian Urmand was being taken back to Granpere, of course with the intention that the marriage should be at once perfected. Madame Faragon had, no doubt, been right in her advice as to dashing in among them at once.
O, George, if I thought there was going to be fighting, I would go myself to prevent it. Madame Faragon no doubt was sincere in her desire that there should be no fighting; but, nevertheless, there was a life and reality about this little affair which had a gratifying effect upon her. 'If I thought I could do any good, I really would go, she said again afterwards.
When the bell was rung at the obnoxious hour, she stopped her ears with her two hands. But though there had been these contests, Madame Faragon had made more than one effort to induce George Voss to become her partner and successor in the house.
Accordingly he did leave Granpere, and became the right hand, and indeed the head, and backbone, and best leg of his old cousin Madame Faragon of the Poste at Colmar. Now the matter on which these few words occurred was a question of love whether George Voss should fall in love with and marry his step-mother's niece Marie Bromar.
They will all go to the Hotel de l'Imperatrice. This was a new house, the very mention of which was a dagger-thrust into the bosom of Madame Faragon. 'Then they will be poisoned, she said. 'And let them! It is what they are fit for. But the change was made, and for the first three days she would not come out of her room.
George never quite believed the boast, as he knew that Madame Faragon was at least ten years older than his father. 'He used to think, continued Madame Faragon, 'that there was nothing better than a good house in the public line, with a well-spirited woman inside it to stand her ground and hold her own. But everything is changed now, since the railroads came up.
He had told Madame Faragon that he expected to stay at Granpere but one night. He felt, however, after his arrival that it might be difficult for him to get away on the following day, and therefore he told them that he would sleep two nights at the Lion d'Or, and then start early, so as to reach the Colmar inn by mid-day.
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