You're not perhaps absolutely unique, but you're so curious and eminent that there are very few others like you--you belong to a class about which everything is known.

You're what they call a morceau de musee." "I see.

I have the great sign of it," he had risked--"that I cost a lot of money." "I haven't the least idea," she had gravely answered, "what you cost"-- and he had quite adored, for the moment, her way of saying it.

He had felt even, for the moment, vulgar.

But he had made the best of that.
"Wouldn't you find out if it were a question of parting with me?
My value would in that case be estimated." She had looked at him with her charming eyes, as if his value were well before her.