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The Golden Lion of Granpere

CHAPTER II
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Do you see how she comes to me and comforts me?
But if it broke my heart, and broke the house too, I would not keep her here.
It isn't fit.

If you like her, and she can like you, it will be a good match for her.

You have my leave to ask her.

She brought nothing here, but she has been a good girl, a very good girl, and she will not leave the house empty-handed.' Adrian Urmand was a linen-buyer from Basle, and was known to have a good share in a good business.

He was a handsome young man too, though rather small, and perhaps a little too apt to wear rings on his fingers and to show jewelry on his shirt-front and about his waistcoat.


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