But she is fairly good-looking, she has been well brought up, and she has no extravagant tastes.

That is the really important point, for what is the use of marrying a rich girl if she squanders the dowry she brings you?
Besides, I know Madame and Mademoiselle de Jonquiere very well, I meet them all through the winter in the most influential drawing-rooms of Paris.

And, finally, don't forget the girl's uncle, the diplomatist, who has had the painful courage to remain in the service of the Republic.

He will be able to do whatever he pleases for his niece's husband." For a moment Gerard seemed shaken, and then he relapsed into perplexity.
"But she hasn't a copper," he said, "no, not a copper.

It's too stiff.