What satisfaction comparable to the glory of her English position as Marchioness of Darrowood could Miss Clara D.Woggenheimer have got out of her millions, if she had married one of her own countrymen, or an Italian count?
Yet she gives herself the airs of a benefactress to poor Darrowood and throws her money in his teeth, whereas Darrowood is the benefactor, if there is a case of it either way.

But to me, a sensible business man, the bargain is equal.

You don't go to an art dealer's and buy a very valuable Rembrandt for its marketable value, and then, afterwards, jibe at the picture and reproach the art dealer.

Money is no good without position, and here in England you have had such hundreds of years of freedom from invasion, that you have had time, which no other country has had, to perfect your social system.

Let the Radicals and the uninformed of other lands rail as they will, your English aristocracy is the finest body of thinkers and livers in the world.