She still loved him,--though she could not be his wife.
Then he thought of Adrian Urmand and of the man's success and wealth, and general prosperity in the world.

What if he should go over to Basle and take Adrian Urmand by the throat and choke him?
What if he should at least half choke the successful man, and make it well understood that the other half would come unless the successful man would consent to relinquish his bride?
George, though he did not expect success for himself, was fully purposed that Urmand should not succeed without some interference from him,--by means of choking or otherwise.

He would find some way of making himself disagreeable.

If it were only by speaking his mind, he thought that he could speak it in such a way that the Basle merchant would not like it.

He would tell Urmand in the first place that Marie was won not at all by affection, not in the least by any personal regard for her suitor, but altogether by a feeling of duty towards her uncle.