"I wish to earn money fast, to accomplish certain purposes I have at heart.
Otherwise, I don't think I care much for the success you call so brilliant.

It is certainly agreeable to feel that I delight the audience, though they are strangers; but their cries of '_Bis! Bis_!' give me less real pleasure than it did to have Papasito ask me to sing over something that he liked.

I seem to see him now, as he used to listen to me in our flowery parlor.

Do you remember that room, Mr.
King ?" "Do I _remember_ it ?" he said, with a look and emphasis so earnest that a quick blush suffused her eloquent face.

"I see that room as distinctly as you can see it," he continued.