You will take your daughter out of the abbe's house, and I will make her my wife.

Unless that is done I cannot marry her, for I should dishonour myself if I received my wife from his hands." "Oh, no! for he is my cousin, although only in the fourth degree, and, what is more, he is a priest and says the mass every day." "You make me laugh, my good woman.

Everybody knows that a priest says the mass without depriving himself of certain trifling enjoyments.

Take your daughter with you, or give up all hope of ever seeing her married." "But if I take her with me, he will not give her his furniture, and perhaps he will sell his small estate here." "I undertake to look to that part of the business.

I promise to take her out of his hands, and to make her come back to you with all the furniture, and to obtain the estate when she is my wife.