They are priceless.' In some degree, also, they compensated him for the expense he was put to in providing for his daughter's subsistence and that of her children.
For there, at all events, visible before his eyes, was the value of the money, if not the money expended.

He remonstrated with Laura for leaving it more than necessarily exposed.

She replied, 'My people know what that money means!' implying, of course, that no one in her house would consequently touch it.

Yet it was reserved for the count to find it gone.
The discovery was made by the astounded nobleman on the day preceding Vittoria's appearance at La Scala.

His daughter being absent, he had visited the cupboard merely to satisfy an habitual curiosity.