I love him extremely--he is a charming boy! Then you see, _chere Mademoiselle_, he is rich,--very rich,--and there are so many pretty girls who are very poor,--naturally they are enchanted with our Errington--_voyez-vous_ ?" "I do not understand," she said, with a puzzled brow.

"It is not possible that they should like him better because he is rich.

He would be the same man without money as with it--it makes no difference!" "Perhaps not to you," returned Duprez, with a smile; "but to many it would make an immense difference! _Chere Mademoiselle_, it is a grand thing to have plenty of money,--believe me!" Thelma shrugged her shoulders.

"Perhaps," she answered indifferently.
"But one cannot spend much on one's self, after all.

The nuns at Arles used to tell me that poverty was a virtue, and that to be very rich was to be very miserable.