Your fortune?
it is a pittance! When I find the solvent of carbon I will fill your parlor with diamonds, and they are but a scintilla of what I seek.

You can well afford to wait while I consume my life in superhuman efforts." "Father, I have no right to ask an account of the four millions you have already engulfed in this fatal garret.

I will not speak to you of my mother whom you killed.

If I had a husband, I should love him, doubtless, as she loved you; I should be ready to sacrifice all to him, as she sacrificed all for you.

I have obeyed her orders in giving myself wholly to you; I have proved it in not marrying and compelling you to render an account of your guardianship.