"If the baroness thinks the rent too high, she will find in her own neighborhood poor people whom she can assist.

I shall continue to pay the same rent I paid to the former owner." "Then my business will be easily settled.

I have brought my clerk with me; he can write out the necessary papers, and the matter can be concluded at once." "Thank you very much," returned the count, but without offering to shake hands.

Instead, he kept his arms crossed behind his back.
"Before we proceed to business," resumed the vice-palatine, "I must tell your worship an anecdote.

A professor once told his pupils that he knew everything.