The Kursaal is the world in little, Diana; and this great globe of ours is nothing but a gigantic gaming-table--a mighty temple for the worship of the golden calf." "Why do you imitate those people yonder, if you despise them so heartily ?" "Because I am like them and of them.

I tell you that money is the beginning and end of all things.

Why am I here, and why is my life made up of baseness and lies?
Because my father was an improvident scoundrel, and did not leave me five hundred a year.

I wonder what I should have been like, by the bye, if I had been blest with five hundred a year ?" "Honest and happy," answered the girl earnestly.

She forgot her simulated indifference, and looked at him with sad earnest eyes.