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'No; nobody has quarrelled with M. Urmand. 'Was he there, George? 'What, with me! No; he was not there with me. I have never seen the man since I first left Granpere to come here. And then George Voss began to think what might have happened had Adrian Urmand been at the hotel while he was there himself. After all, what could he have said to Adrian Urmand? or what could he have done to him?
Michel was so handsome, strong, and hale; and Madame Voss, though she was a comely woman, though when she was brought home a bride to Granpere the neighbours had all declared that she was very handsome, carried with her a look of more years than she really possessed.
She has grown to be such a beauty! Everybody gives it to her that she is the prettiest girl round Granpere. And why shouldn't he marry her? If I had a lot of money, I'd only look to get the prettiest girl I could find anywhere. After this, George said nothing farther to the young man as to the marriage. If it was talked about as Edmond said, it was probably true. And why should it not be true?
Everybody in the house, everybody in Granpere, knew that the marriage had been arranged, and the old lady who had been so dreadfully snubbed by Marie, had forgiven the offence, acknowledging that Marie's position on that evening had been one of difficulty. But these arrangements had reference only to two days.
At last Michel Voss prevailed, and persuaded the young man to return with him to the Lion d'Or. They started early on the following morning, and travelled to Granpere by way of Colmar and the mountain. The father thus passed twice through Colmar, but on neither occasion did he call upon his son.
When she saw him again in the evening, of course she asked him some farther questions. 'George, she said, 'I am afraid things are not going pleasantly at Granpere. 'Not altogether, he answered. 'But I suppose the marriage will go on? To this he made no answer, but shook his head, showing how impatient he was at being thus questioned.
She had never whispered the name of George to any one since he had left Granpere, and she thought that she might have been spared this indignity.
But he was able, when he no longer saw her, when her voice was not sounding in his ear, to swear that the thunderbolt should be hurled all the same. His journey to Granpere should not be made for nothing. 'I must go now, she said presently. 'I shall see you at supper, shall I not, George, when Uncle will be with us? Uncle Michel will be so delighted to find you.
Once Madame Voss went over to see him, and brought back word of his well-doing. Exactly at eight o'clock every evening a loud bell was sounded in the hotel of the Lion d'Or at Granpere, and all within the house sat down together to supper. The supper was spread on a long table in the saloon up-stairs, and the room was lighted with camphine lamps, -for as yet gas had not found its way to Granpere.
It was simply this, that their tempers were alike; and when on an occasion Michel told his son that he would not allow a certain piece of folly which the son was, as he thought, likely to commit, George declared that he would soon set that matter right by leaving Granpere.
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