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'To take a walk? 'If it would not be disagreeable. Perhaps it would be well that you and I should have a few minutes of conversation. 'I will leave you together here, said the father, 'if you, George, will promise me that there shall be no violence. Urmand looked at the innkeeper as though he did not like the proposition, but Michel took no notice of his look.
She had sent word down to her uncle that she was ill, and that she would beg him to go up to her. As yet he had not seen her; but a message had been taken to her, saying that he would come soon. Adrian Urmand had breakfasted alone, and had since been wandering about the house by himself. He also, from the windows of the billiard-room, had seen the arrival of George Voss.
At length the day was there on which Adrian Urmand was to come. It was his purpose to travel by Mulhouse and Remiremont, and Michel Voss drove over to the latter town to fetch him. It was felt by every one it could not be but felt that there was something special in his coming. His arrival now was not like the arrival of any one else.
'But he M. Urmand; he would give her up if he knew it all, would he not? To this George made no instant answer; but the idea was there, in his mind that the linen merchant might perhaps be induced to abandon his purpose, if he could be made to understand that Marie wished it. 'If he have any touch of manhood about him he would do so, said he. 'And what will you do, George? 'Do!
It was Madame Voss at last who settled the day, the 15th of October, just four weeks from the present time. This she did in concert with Adrian Urmand, who, however, was very docile in her hands. Urmand, after he had been accepted, soon managed to bring himself back to that state of mind in which he had before regarded the possession of Marie Bromar as very desirable.
'There is nothing but snow here after Christmas, continued Michel, 'and perhaps not a Christian over the road for days together. I shouldn't like it, I know. It may be all very well just now. But Adrian Urmand was altogether inattentive either to the scenery now before him, or to the prospect of the mountain innkeeper's winter life.
On the next morning M. Urmand returned home to Basle, taking the public conveyance as far as Remiremont. Everybody was up to see him off, and Marie herself gave him his cup of coffee at parting. It was pretty to see the mingled grace and shame with which the little ceremony was performed.
'You'll behave, I'm sure, as a man ought to behave to a young woman whom he intends to make his wife. The words themselves were civil enough; but there was a tone in the innkeeper's voice and a flame in his eye, which made Urmand almost feel that he had been threatened. Then they drove into the space in front of the door of the Lion d'Or. Michel had made for himself no plan whatsoever.
The manner in which he had first addressed her made it impossible for her to tell him that she was not engaged to marry Adrian Urmand, that she was determined, if possible, to avoid the marriage, and that she had no love for Adrian Urmand. Had she done so, she would in so doing have asked him to come back to her. That she should do this was impossible.
There was a malignity of satire intended in this; for the young man in his wrath, and with a full conviction of what was coming upon him, had intended to include his betrothed in the catalogue of things of Granpere not worthy of inspection. But Michel Voss did not at all follow him so far as that. 'I never saw such a place, continued Urmand.
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