Voila!" Just for a moment the possibilities of the suggestion caught his mind.
He would be near Nance all the time.

He would be saved much tiresome walking to and fro.

Especially he would be saved that passage of the Coupee, which at night, even with a lantern, was not a thing one easily got accustomed to, and on stormy nights was enough to make one's hair fly.

Then this woman was very different from his present landlady, and would probably, he thought, have different notions of comfort.
The quick black eyes caught something of what was in him: and he, as suddenly, caught something of what lurked, consciously or unconsciously, in them, and a little tremor of repugnance shook his heart and braced him back to reason.
He shook his head.

"It would not do, madame.