She did not rise, but waited till he had come close up to her.

Then she was the first to speak.

'Aunt Josey tells me that you want to see me,' she said.
Urmand's task was certainly not a pleasant one.

Though his temper was excellent, he was already beginning to think that he was being ill-used.

Marie, no doubt, was a very fine girl, but the match that he offered her was one at which no young woman of her rank in all Lorraine or Alsace need have turned up her nose.