But I would be greatly obliged if you would find out where they are, those good people.

You seem to be a friend of my boy's, baron.

Help him, and he will be grateful to you.
It is not such a very terrible thing that a great artist should love a noble's daughter, after all, though I used to think so." Benoni laughed, that strange laugh which Nino had described,--a laugh that seemed to belong to another age.
"You amuse me with your prejudices about nobility," he said, and his brown eyes flashed and twinkled again.

"The idea of talking about nobility in this age! You might as well talk of the domestic economy of the Garden of Eden." "But you are yourself a noble--a baron," I objected.
"Oh, I am anything you please," said Benoni.

"Some idiot made a baron of me the other day because I lent him money and he could not pay it.
But I have some right to it, after all, for I am a Jew.