I bought these in London." "And they cost you something ?" "Some of these, of course, cost more than others.

That," Corinna pointed to a mezzotint of the Ladies Waldegrave by Valentine Green, "cost a little less than ten thousand dollars." "Ten thousand dollars!" Mrs.Culpeper gazed at the print as disapprovingly as if it were an open violation of the Eighteenth Amendment.

"We didn't pay anything like that for our largest copy of a Murillo.

Well, I may not be artistic, but, for my part, I could never understand why any one should want an old book or an old picture." Sitting rigidly upright in one of the tapestry-covered chairs, she added condescendingly: "Stephen admires this room very much." "Stephen," remarked Corinna pleasantly, "is a dear boy." "Just now," returned Stephen's mother, with her accustomed air of duty unflinchingly performed, "he is giving us a great deal of anxiety.

Never before, not even when he was in the war, have I spent so many sleepless nights over him." "I am sorry.