A loan relieves you temporarily, and leaves you in a state to contract several others successively, which, you must acknowledge, weakens the guarantee that you offer.

While a marriage instantly opens to you the road that your ambition wishes to travel." "I have never thought of marriage." "If you should think of it ?" "There must be a woman first of all." "If I should propose one, what would you say ?" "But--" "You are surprised ?" "I confess that I am." "My dear sir, I am the friend of my clients, and for many of them--I dare to say it--a father.

And having much affection for a young woman, and for the daughter of one of my friends, while listening to you I thought that one or the other might be the woman you need.

Both have fortunes, and both possess physical attractions that a handsome man like yourself has a right to demand.

And for the rest, I have their photographs, and you may see for yourself what they are." He opened a drawer in his desk, and took from it a package of photographs.