CHAPTER III
THE OMINOUS WEDDING-DRESS
One fine day, the loving pair went over to Paimpol, with Granny Moan,
to buy the wedding-dress.
Gaud could very easily have done over one of her former town-lady's
dresses for the occasion. But Yann had wanted to make her this
present, and she had not resisted too long the having a dress given by
her betrothed, and paid for by the money he had earned at his fishing;
it seemed as if she were already his wife by this act.
They chose black, for Gaud had not yet left off mourning for her
father; but Yann did not find any of the stuffs they placed before
them good enough. He was not a little overbearing with the shopman;
he, who formerly never would have set his foot inside a shop, wanted
to manage everything himself, even to the very fashion of the dress.
He wished it adorned with broad beads of velvet, so that it would be
very fine, in his mind.
