Was it probable, she said to herself, that one so godlike would still
care for her?
The mother was delighted with her son, who rattled away quite at his
ease. He shook hands very cordially with the capitaine--of whose
intended alliance with his own sweetheart he had been informed, and
then as he entered the house with his hand under his mother's arm, he
asked one question about her. "And where is Marie?" said he.
"Marie! oh upstairs; you shall see her after breakfast," said La Mere
Bauche. And so they entered the house, and went in to breakfast
among the guests. Everybody had heard something of the story, and
they were all on the alert to see the young man whose love or want of
love was considered to be of so much importance.
"You will see that it will be all right," said the capitaine,
carrying his head very high.
"I think so, I think so," said La Mere Bauche, who, now that the
capitaine was right, no longer desired to contradict him.
"I know that it will be all right," said the capitaine. "I told you
that Adolphe would return a man; and he is a man. Look at him; he
does not care this for Marie Clavert;" and the capitaine, with much
eloquence in his motion, pitched over a neighbouring wall a small
stone which he held in his hand.
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