"Me get married ?" said Yann to his parents that same evening.

"Me get married?
Good heavens, why should I?
Shall I ever be as happy as here with ye?
no troubles, no tiffs with any one, and warm soup ready for me every night when I come home from sea.

Oh! I quite understand that you mean the girl that came here to-day, but what's such a rich girl to do with us?
'Tisn't clear to my thinking.

And it'll be neither her, nor any other.

It's all settled, I won't marry--it ain't to my liking." The two old Gaoses looked at one another in silence, deeply disappointed, for, after having talked it over together, they were pretty well sure that this young lady would not refuse their handsome Yann.