If it were not for this secret service, I should be bankrupt, for the Tuileries, perhaps, suspecting my good faith, pay me only in pretty words--_a la francaise_.

This bank which I hold tempts me sorely, Cesarine, but only if you will dip into it with me.

Only once in a life does a man have his great opportunity.

Mine is the present.

A fortune--a beauty! Never will I have such an opportunity again to found a principality in Florida or the South Seas or South America--wherever we choose to come to a rest.