So at least said some of the young people of Granpere, where rings and gold studs are not so common as they are at Basle.
But he was one who understood his business, and did not neglect it; he had money too; and was therefore such a young man that Michel Voss felt that he might give his niece to him without danger, if he and she could manage to like each other sufficiently.

As to Urmand's liking, there was no doubt.

Urmand was ready enough.
'I will see if she will speak to me just now,' said Urmand after a pause.
'Shall her aunt try it, or shall I do it ?' said Michel.
But Adrian Urmand thought that part of the pleasure of love lay in the making of it himself.

So he declined the innkeeper's offer, at any rate for the present occasion.

'Perhaps,' said he, 'Madame Voss will say a word for me after I have spoken for myself.' 'So let it be,' said the landlord.