Luxury to that degree upsets me.

Those black ponies with their white rosettes! I dreamed of them last night, and that little-Bettina, is it not ?" "Yes, Bettina." "Bettina--Countess Bettina de Lavardens! Doesn't that sound well enough! and what a perfect husband she would have in me! To be the husband of a woman possessing boundless wealth, that is my destiny.

It is not so easy as one may suppose.

I have already run through something, and--if my mother had not stopped me! but I am quite ready to begin again.

Oh, how happy that girl would be with me! I would create around her the existence of a fairy queen.