"'Mais il faut vivre,' as the tailor told M. de Talleyrand."
"'Je n'en vois pas la necessité,' as M. de Talleyrand replied; at least not the necessity to live as you do."
"How shall I live then? I have about three hundred dollars; when they are at an end--and that may be very soon--I must either work or make an end of myself too!"
"Don't be such a fool! A man like you, who has a thousand ways to make his fortune!"
"For instance?"
"For instance, by marrying the little Grenwitz, who seems to me to wish nothing more eagerly."
"That is easier said than done."
"Perhaps not, if you take the right road."
"And which is that?"
"Force them to give you the girl, whether they will or not."