The question of money is of the utmost importance to my future, which hangs to-day in the balance.

All young girls expect to be loved _whether or no_--fortune or no fortune.

But you are not the man to marry your dear Modeste without a 'dot,' and my situation does not allow me to make a marriage of what is called love unless with a woman who has a fortune at least equal to mine.

I have, from my emoluments and sinecures, from the Academy and from my works, about thirty thousand francs a year, a large income for a bachelor.

If my wife brought me as much more, I should still be in about the same condition that I am now.
Shall you give Mademoiselle a million ?" "Ah, monsieur, we have not reached that point as yet," said the colonel, Jesuitically.
"Then suppose," said Canalis, quickly, "that we go no further; we will let the matter drop.