I'm a stockbroker, but my real business is financing some of the little Courts of Europe.

Now, I may tell you that the Hereditary Prince of Posen particularly wanted a million, and he wanted it by a certain date, and he knew that if the affair wasn't fixed up by a certain time here he wouldn't be able to get it by that certain date.

That's why I'm surprised he isn't in London.' 'What did he need a million for ?' 'Debts,' answered Sampson Levi laconically.
'His own ?' 'Certainly.' 'But he isn't thirty years of age ?' 'What of that?
He isn't the only European Prince who has run up a million of debts in a dozen years.

To a Prince the thing is as easy as eating a sandwich.' 'And why has he taken this sudden resolution to liquidate them ?' 'Because the Emperor and the lady's parents won't let him marry till he has done so! And quite right, too! He's got to show a clean sheet, or the Princess Anna of Eckstein-Schwartzburg will never be Princess of Posen.

Even now the Emperor has no idea how much Prince Eugen's debts amount to.