Take a certain tone and style and in six months you'll captivate an English-woman with a hundred thousand pounds; but you must call yourself viscount, a title which belongs to you.

My charming step-mother, Lady Dudley, who has not her equal for matching two hearts, will find you some such woman in the fens of Great Britain.

What you must now do is to get the payment of your debts postponed for ninety days.

Why didn't you tell us about them?
The money-lenders at Baden would have spared you--served you perhaps; but now, after you have once been in prison, they'll despise you.

A money-lender is, like society, like the masses, down on his knees before the man who is strong enough to trick him, and pitiless to the lambs.
To the eyes of some persons Sainte-Pelagie is a she-devil who burns the souls of young men.