If a woman's going to ignore her pearls, they want to be better than anybody else's--and so it is with everything else.

You know what I mean--you know it's only the showy things that are cheap.
Well, I should want my wife to be able to take the earth for granted if she wanted to.

I know there's one thing vulgar about money, and that's the thinking about it; and my wife would never have to demean herself in that way." He paused, and then added, with an unfortunate lapse to an earlier manner: "I guess you know the lady I've got in view, Miss Bart." Lily raised her head, brightening a little under the challenge.

Even through the dark tumult of her thoughts, the clink of Mr.Rosedale's millions had a faintly seductive note.

Oh, for enough of them to cancel her one miserable debt! But the man behind them grew increasingly repugnant in the light of Selden's expected coming.