If you were in my place, you would soon have to put their right value on them.

As I said before, I have to look after my own and my partners' interests.

These dear creatures care for nothing but dress; father, husband, and children are as nothing in comparison.
You cannot imagine what a woman will do in order to get a new dress, in which to outshine her rival.

They only talk of their families when they are called on to pay up." Paul still continued to plead for some money for the poor lady, and the discussion was getting so warm that Mascarin felt bound to interfere.
"Perhaps," said he, "you have been a little hard." "Pooh," returned the tailor; "I know my customer; and to-morrow my account will be settled, and I know very well where the money will come from.

Then she will give me another order, and we shall have the whole comedy over again.