Do authors have time to make love ?" "I don't say they love, my dear, but they are forced to _lodge_ somewhere, like other men, and when they haven't a home of their own they _lodge_ with their mistresses; which may seem to you rather loose, but it is far more agreeable than lodging in a prison." Fire was less red than Marie's cheeks.
"Will you have him for a victim?
I can help you to terrify him," continued the count, not looking at his wife's face.

"I'll put you in the way of proving to him that he is being tricked like a child by your brother-in-law du Tillet.

That wretch is trying to put Nathan in prison so as to make him ineligible to stand against him in the electoral college.

I know, through a friend of Florine, the exact sum derived from the sale of her furniture, which she gave to Nathan to found his newspaper; I know, too, what she sent him out of her summer's harvest in the departments and in Belgium,--money which has really gone to the profit of du Tillet, Nucingen, and Massol.

All three of them, unknown to Nathan, have privately sold the paper to the new ministry, so sure are they of ejecting him." "Monsieur Nathan is incapable of accepting money from an actress." "You don't know that class of people, my dear," said the count.