"I wish to leave you the honor of fixing the price of this work, which is above all price." The Jew placed on the table a hundred and fifty francs in new coin.
"Well, what more ?" said Marcel, "that's only the prologue." "Monsieur Marcel," replied the Jew, "you know that my first offer is my last.

I shall add nothing.

Reflect, a hundred and fifty francs; that is a sum, it is!" "A very small sum," said the artist.

"There is that much worth of cobalt in my Pharaoh's robe.

Make it a round sum, at any rate! Square it off; say two hundred!" "I won't add a sou!" said Medicis.