They do say that she has grown up good-looking.' 'Yes;--she is a handsome girl.' 'When I remember her as a child she was broad and dumpy, and they always come back at last to what they were as children.

But of course M.Urmand only looks to what she is now.

She makes her hay while the sun shines; but I hope the people won't say that your father has caught him at the Lion d'Or, and taken him in.' 'My father is not the man to care very much what anybody says about such things.' 'Perhaps not so much as he ought, George,' said Madame Faragon, shaking her head.
After that George Voss went about the house for some hours, doing his work, giving his orders, and going through the usual routine of his day's business.

As he did so, no one guessed that his mind was disturbed.

Madame Faragon had not the slightest suspicion that the matter of Marie's marriage was a cause of sorrow to him.