When he would have me show one of them, to justify his purchase to his men, I require of him to say which he demands, and I exhibit it.

I will do no more.

He makes the purchase of his own will, and with his own sense of its worth, and the power of his money; and I hope it may never disappoint him.

I have not vaunted and pressed the bargain; neither have you, so far as I have been able to prevent you.
'You talk strangely to-night, Edith, to your own Mother.' 'It seems so to me; stranger to me than you,' said Edith.

'But my education was completed long ago.