When his father told him that he was bound
to do something before he got married, he could not have intended to
accuse him of having been hitherto idle. Of the wood-cutting and
the saw-mill George knew as much as Marie did of the poultry and the
linen. Michel was wrong, probably, in his attempt to separate them.
The house was large enough, or if not, there was still room for
another house to be built in Granpere. They would have done well as
man and wife. But then the head of a household naturally objects to
seeing the boys and girls belonging to him making love under his
nose without any reference to his opinion. 'Things were not made so
easy for me,' he says to himself, and feels it to be a sort of duty
to take care that the course of love shall not run altogether
smooth. George, no doubt, was too abrupt with his father; or
perhaps it might be the case that he was not sorry to take an
opportunity of leaving for a while Granpere and Marie Bromar. It
might be well to see the world; and though Marie Bromar was bright
and pretty, it might be that there were others abroad brighter and
prettier.
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