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The Lion d'Or, only hotel in a small town in Lorraine, was owned by
Michel Voss. His son George lived with him, as did his second wife and her
niece Marie Bromar. Marie was a vigorous, attractive and intelligent young
woman, devoted to her uncle and most efficient in the work at the inn. It was
inevitable that she and George should fall in love, but Michel, feeling that
each could make a more advantageous marriage, stubbornly refused his consent to
their engagement. George angrily left borne to take charge of an inn in Colmar, where he remained
for a year without communicating with his family. Marie, feeling that she was
forsaken and urged by her uncle, became engaged to Adrian Urmand,
a prosperous linenbuyer from Basle
who was often at the inn. When the news of the engagement reached George he set
out immediately for Granpere where his father, overjoyed at his return,
consented to his marriage to Marie.
GEROULD,
WINIFRED GREGORY;
A GUIDE TO TROLLOPE.
© 1948 Princeton University Press,
1976 renewed PUP
Reprinted by permission of Princeton
University Press.
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López
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Universitat de Valčncia
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