` It will soon be full now , and I shall have to buy a larger one , ' he said to himself , and so busy was he with the thought of his money , that he did not notice how bright his son 's face had grown , nor how he sometimes started when he was spoken to , as if his mind was far away . One day , however , the old man went to the city on business , which he had not done for three years at least . It was market day , and he met with many people he knew , and it was getting quite late when he turned into the inn yard , and bade an ostler saddle his horse , and bring it round directly . While he was waiting in the hall , the landlady came up for a gossip , and after a few remarks about the weather and the vineyards she asked him how he liked his new daughter-in-law , and whether he had been surprised at the marriage . The old man stared as he listened to her . ` Daughter-in-law ? Marriage ? ' said he . ' I do n't know what you are talking about ! I 've got no daughter-in-law , and nobody has been married lately , that I ever heard of . ' Now this was exactly what the landlady , who was very curious , wanted to find out ; but she put on a look of great alarm , and exclaimed : ` Oh , dear ! I hope I have not made mischief . I had no idea -- or , of course , I would not have spoken -- but ' -- and here she stopped and fumbled with her apron , as if she was greatly embarrassed . ` As you have said so much you will have to say a little more , ' retorted the old man , a suspicion of what she meant darting across him ; and the woman , nothing loth , answered as before . ` Ah , it was not all for buying or selling that your handsome son has been coming to town every week these many months past . And not by the shortest way , either ! No , it was over the river he rode , and across the hill and past the cottage of Miguel the vine-keeper , whose daughter , they say , is the prettiest girl in the whole country side , though she is too white for my taste , ' and then the landlady paused again , and glanced up at the farmer , to see how he was taking it . She did not learn much . He was looking straight before him , his teeth set . But as she ceased to talk , he said quietly , ` Go on . '
` There is not much more XXXXX tell , ' replied the landlady , for she suddenly remembered that she must prepare supper for the hungry men who always stopped at the inn on market days , before starting for home , ` but one fine morning they both went to the little church on top of the hill , and were married .
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