He frowned
and went on smoking, though at heart he felt grateful to George for
having found him out and followed him. He was altogether tired of
being alone, or, worse than that, of being left together with Adrian
Urmand. But the overtures for a general reconciliation could not
come first from him, nor could any be entertained without at least
some show of obedience. 'I thought I should find you up here,' said
George.
'And now you have found me, what of that?'
'I fancy we can talk better, father, up among the woods, than we can
down there when that young man is hanging about. We always used to
have a chat up here, you know.'
'It was different then,' said Michel. 'That was before you had
learned to think it a fine thing to be your own master and to oppose
me in everything.'
'I have never opposed you but in one thing, father.'
'Ah, yes; in one thing. But that one thing is everything. Here
I've been doing the best I could for both of you, striving to put
you upon your legs, and make you a man and her a woman, and this is
the return I get!'
'But what would you have had me do?'
'What would I have had you do? Not come here and oppose me in
everything.
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