He loved, esteemed commerce, because he considered it the source of wealth.

His daughter despised it because it was, in her eyes, the source of avarice and the food of cupidity.

Men in this condition of life were repugnant to her.

She desired in a husband ideas and feelings sympathising with her own.

Her ideal was a soul and not a fortune.
"Brought up from my infancy in connexion with the great men of all ages, familiar with lofty ideas and illustrious examples--had I lived with Plato, with all the philosophers, all the poets, all the politicians of antiquity, merely to unite myself with a shopkeeper, who would neither appreciate nor feel any thing as I did ?" She who wrote these lines was at that moment demanded in marriage of her parents by a rich butcher of the neighbourhood.