I thought the contrary from the way he rode my horse and handled the pistols.

But, being an enthusiast, how can you expect to do anything but vegetate?
You will always be poor, for, if the man's ideas bore fruit, he would only sink the gains in fresh enterprises.

These artists are always unthrifty, and they should wed their laundresses or their cooks.

But I--though they have tied up my German revenue, and I have been practically banished--enjoy a tolerable return from my property in this Empire.

I have been offered a very handsome present if I wholly transfer allegiance to the Napoleons.