When it's a question of tens of thousands, he doesn't think of money.
" She spoke with that gleefully sly smile with which women often talk of the secret characteristics only known to them--of those they love.
" Do you see that big building? that's the new hospital.
I believe it will cost over a hundred thousand; that's his hobby just now.
And do you know how it all came about? The peasants asked him for some meadowland, I think it was, at a cheaper rate, and he refused, and I accused him of being miserly.