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George Voss was known to be a clever young man; many in those parts declared that he was much more so than his father; and when he became clerk at the Poste in Colmar, and after a year or two had taken into his hands almost the entire management of that house so that people began to say that old-fashioned and wretched as it was, money might still be made there people began to say also that Michel Voss had been wrong to allow his son to leave Granpere.
In September and October I wrote a short novel, called The Golden Lion of Granpere, which was intended also for Blackwood, with a view of being published anonymously; but Mr. Blackwood did not find the arrangement to be profitable, and the story remained on my hands, unread and unthought of, for a few years. It appeared subsequently in Good Words.
There was no end to the good with which she would be endowed 'linen, said the man, holding up his hands in admiration, 'that will last out all her grandchildren at least! George listened to it all, and smiled, and said a word or two was it worth his while to come all the way to Granpere to throw his thunderbolt at a girl who had been captivated by promises of a chest full of house linen!
I have made hatred and bitterness between those who should love each other better than all the world! Then Madame Voss was able to guess what had been the cause of the quarrel. 'Marie, said George very slowly, 'if you will only ask your own heart what you ought to do, and be true to what it tells you, there is no reason even yet that you should be sorry that you came to Granpere.
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.
This was the third time he had gone to Granpere in the course of the present autumn, and on each time he had gone without invitation and without warning. And yet, previous to this, he had remained above a year at Colmar without taking any notice of his family.
Before they got back to the inn, George had thanked his father for his liberal offer, had declared that he would accede to Madame Faragon's proposition, and had made his father understand that he must return to Colmar on the next Monday, two days before that on which Urmand was expected at Granpere. The Monday came, and hitherto there had been no word of explanation between George and Marie.
Urmand's journeys to Granpere had been commenced before George Voss had left the place, and therefore the two young men had known each other. 'They say he's very rich, said Edmond. 'I thought he cared for nobody but himself. And are you sure? Who told you? 'I am quite sure; but I do not know who told me. They are all talking about it. 'Did my father ever tell you? 'No, he never told me.
It was a small room, furnished, as they all thought at Granpere, with Parisian elegance, intended for such visitors to the hotel as might choose to pay for the charm and luxury of such an apartment. It was generally found that visitors to Granpere did not care to pay for the luxury of this Parisian elegance, and the room was almost always empty.
Whether the inhabitants of these hills and valleys will advance to farther progress now that they are again to become German, is another question, which the writer will not attempt to answer here. Granpere in itself is a very pleasing village.
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