“For my part, son, I should like less to have it abolished than to have a great deal of it.” “I shouldn’t. If I could carry out my plans, all I should need afterwards would be a hut to live in, a garret.”
“Our ideas differ.”
“These people that need clothes and jewels and perfumes fairly nauseate me.... All such things are only fit for Jews.”
“Then I must surely be a Jewess.”
VIII. OLD PALACES, OLD SALONS, OLD LADIES
THE CARDINAL UNCLE
As the Cardinal gave no indication of curiosity to see Cæsar, Cæsar several times said to Laura:
“We ought to call on uncle, eh?”
“Do as you choose. He isn’t very anxious to see you. Apparently he takes you for an unbeliever.”