Once or twice before he reached Colmar he had thought that he would go back again.

He had been, he felt, badly treated; and, though he was very fond of Marie, it would be better for him perhaps to wash his hands of the whole affair.

He was so thinking the whole way to Colmar.

But he was afraid of Michel Voss, and when they got out upon the platform there, he had no resolution ready to be declared as fixed.

Then they had hired the little carriage, and Michel Voss had slept again.
He had slept all through Munster, and up the steep mountain, and was not thoroughly awake till they were summoned to get out at the wonderfully fine house for refreshment which the late Emperor caused to be built at the top of the hill.