reproached her as cold, mercenary, unworthy, heartless, even though
he had still loved her, he could have supported himself by his anger
against her unworthiness. But as it was there was no such support
for him. Though she had been in fault, her virtue towards him was
greater than her fault. She still loved him. 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. And he would point out to this suitor how
dastardly a thing it would be to take advantage of a girl so placed.
He planned a speech or two as he drove along which he thought that
even Urmand, thick-skinned as he believed him to be, would dislike
to hear. 'You may have her, perhaps,' he would say to him, 'as so
much goods that you would buy, because she is, as a thing in her
uncle's hands, to be bought. She believes it to be her duty, as
being altogether dependent, to be disposed of as her uncle may
choose. And she will go to you, as she would to any other man who