You are a pretty girl, Marie, and fit to be any man's wife, and you ought to take a husband.

I am quite in earnest now, my dear; and I speak altogether for your own welfare.' 'I know you are in earnest, and I know that you speak for my welfare.' 'Well;--well;--what then?
Of course, it is only reasonable that you should be married some day.

Here is a young man in a better way of business than any man, old or young, that comes into Granpere.

He has a house in Basle, and money to put in it whatever you want.

And for the matter of that, Marie, my niece shall not go away from me empty-handed.' She drew herself closer to him and took hold of his arm and pressed it, and looked up into his face.
'I brought nothing with me,' she said, 'and I want to take nothing away.' 'Is that it ?' he said, speaking rapidly.