'If you think that the house is worth anything, I will give you a few thousand francs to set it in order; and then you had better agree to allow her so much a year for her life.' He probably felt himself to be nearly as young a man as his son; and then remember too that he had other sons coming up, who would be able to carry on the house at Granpere when he should be past his work.
Michel was a loving, generous-hearted man, and all feeling of anger with his son was over before they had been together two days.

'You can't do better, George,' he said.

'You need not always stay away from us for twelve months, and I might take a turn over the mountain, and get a lesson as to how you do things at Colmar.

If ten thousand francs will help you, you shall have them.

Will that make things go straight with you ?' George Voss thought the sum named would make things go very straight; but as the reader knows, he had another matter near to his heart.