She had felt the not unnatural envy of a woman's mind in such an affair, and could not help expressing it, although Marie Bromar was in some sort connected with herself.

But she was sure that such an arrangement would be regarded as a family triumph by George,--unless, indeed, he should be inclined to quarrel with his father for over-generosity in that matter of the dot.

'It is lucky that you got your little bit of money before this affair was settled,' said she.
'It would not have made the difference of a copper sou,' said George Voss, as he walked angrily out of the old woman's room.

This was in the evening, after supper, and the greater part of the day had passed since he had first heard the news.

Up to the present moment he had endeavoured to shake the matter off from him, declaring to himself that grief--or at least any outward show of grief--would be unmanly and unworthy of him.