Taking you as a foreigner, you must know that.

Judge of the case by your own reigning Families.

Such events never happen amongst them.

Do you suppose that the possession of immense wealth entitles you to the immeasurable presumption of aspiring to equality of position with reigning Houses?
Such folly is more frequently castigated than reasoned with.

Why, now--now, were it published--that I had condescended--condescend as I am doing, I should be the laughing-stock of every Court in Europe.