It is about one year's income for her rentes, a mere trifle to you, of course." "Twenty thousand pounds," De Brensault repeated reflectively.
The Princess nodded.

She was sorry that she had not asked thirty thousand.
"I am not a mercenary woman," she said.

"If I were not almost a pauper I would accept nothing.

As it is, I think you will call my proposal a very fair one." "The exact amount of Mademoiselle Jeanne's dot," he remarked, "has never been discussed between us." "The figures are altogether beyond me," the Princess said.

"To tell you the truth I have never had the heart to go into them.