Rembrandt The Jewish Bride

Rembrandt The Jewish Bride
Return of the Prodigal Son
Samson And Delilah
seated nude
　　 "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." 　　 "Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned." 　　 "Perhaps," said Elinor, smiling, "we may come to the same point. Your competence and my wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting. Your ideas are only more noble than mine. Come, what is your competence?" 　　 "About eighteen
oil painting hundred or two thousand a year; not more than that." 　　 Elinor laughed. "Two thousand a year! One is my wealth! I guessed how it would end." 　　 "And yet two thousand a year is a very moderate income," said Marianne. "A family cannot well be maintained on a smaller. I am sure I am not extravagant in my demands. A proper establishment of servants, a carriage, perhaps two, and hunters, cannot be supported on less." 　　 Elinor smiled again, to hear her sister describing so accurately their future expenses at Combe Magna.