When you took a fancy to me, you said to yourself, 'I will expend so much on passion,' and you have kept your word.

It is an investment, like any other, in which one receives interest in the form of pleasure.

You are capable of all the extravagance in the world, to the extent of your fixed price of four thousand francs a month! If it required a franc more you would very soon take back your heart and your hat, and carry them elsewhere; to one or other of my rivals in the neighborhood." "It is true," answered the advocate, coolly.

"I know how to count, and that accomplishment is very useful to me.

It enables me to know exactly how and where I have got rid of my fortune." "So you really know ?" sneered Juliette.
"And I can tell you, madam," continued he.