A strong woman, too, the mother! Ah, Prince, you have allowed yourself to be done completely.

I would not have thought it of you." Serge, nonplussed for a moment, regained his self-possession, and looked Herzog in the face: "I don't know what idea you have formed of me, sir, and I don't know what object you have in speaking thus to me." "My interest in you," interrupted the financier.

"You are a charming fellow: you please me much.

With your tastes, it is possible that in a brief time you may be short of money.

Come and see me: I will put you into the way of business.