I took her to the jeweler's and bought her a pair of pearl earrings.

If you could have heard her, if you could have seen her, when the little angel first looked at herself in the glass! I wonder when I shall pay for the earrings?
"Ah, Julie, if I only had such an income as yours, I would make my power felt in this place.

The insolent women should fawn on me and fear me.

I would have my own house and establishment in the country, to purify me after the atmosphere of the Professor's drugs.

I would--well! well! never mind what else I would have.
"Talking of power, have you read the account of the execution last year of that wonderful criminal, Anna Maria Zwanziger?
Wherever she went, the path of this terrific woman is strewed with the dead whom she has poisoned.