She bought a great number of little curiosities; for which she left me to pay without the least ceremony.
But she everywhere gave away little trinkets to a much greater amount than of the things we had purchased.

By the indifference with which she threw away her money, I perceived she annexed to it but little value.
When she insisted upon a payment, I am of opinion it was more from a motive of vanity than avarice.

She was flattered by the price her admirers set upon her favors.
In the evening we conducted her to her apartments.

As we conversed together, I perceived a couple of pistols upon her toilette.

"Ah! Ah!" said I, taking one of them up, "this is a patchbox of a new construction: may I ask what is its use?
I know you have other arms which give more fire than those upon your table." After a few pleasantries of the same kind, she said to us, with an ingenuousness which rendered her still more charming, "When I am complaisant to persons whom I do not love, I make them pay for the weariness they cause me; nothing can be more just; but if I suffer their caresses, I will not bear their insults; nor miss the first who shall be wanting to me in respect." At taking leave of her, I made another appointment for the next day.