"By your accepting Le Gardeur without more delay! All the city
knows he is mad in love, and would marry you any day you choose if
you wore only the hair on your head. He would ask no better
fortune!"
"It is useless to advise me, Renaud!" said she, "and whether I take
Le Gardeur or no it would not help your chance with Amelie! I am
sorry for it, for Amelie is a prize, Renaud! but not for you at any
price. Let me tell you, that desirable young lady will become the
bride of Pierre Philibert, and the bride of no other man living."
"You give one cold encouragement, sister! But I am sure, if you
would only marry Le Gardeur, you could easily, with your tact and
cleverness, induce Amelie to let me share the Tilly fortune. There
are chests full of gold in the old Manor House, and a crow could
hardly fly in a day over their broad lands!"
"Perfectly useless, brother! Amelie is not like most girls. She
would refuse the hand of a king for the sake of the man she loves,
and she loves Pierre Philibert to his finger-ends. She has married
him in her heart a thousand times.
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