10/17 She will keep your house for you; but she will never love you. She will keep your house for you,--unless, indeed, she should find you to be so intolerable to her, that she should be forced to leave you. It is in that way that you will have her,--if you are so low a thing as to be willing to take her so.' He planned various speeches of such a nature--not intending to trust entirely to speeches, but to proceed to some attempt at choking afterwards if it should be necessary. Marie Bromar should not become Adrian Urmand's wife without some effort on his part. So resolving, he drove into the yard of the hotel at Colmar. |