I am indeed grateful to them.

If I gave the girl a bracelet, and the father a thousand guineas--how would that meet the case ?' 'My dear Eugen!' exclaimed Aribert aghast.

'A thousand guineas! Do you know that Theodore Racksole could buy up all Posen from end to end without making himself a pauper.

A thousand guineas! You might as well offer him sixpence.' 'Then what must I offer ?' 'Nothing, except your thanks.

Anything else would be an insult.