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Updated: June 12, 2025

You'd no business to, my dear chap-a lovely baroque pearl " he protested, with the half-apologetic tone of the rich man embarrassed by too costly a gift from an impecunious friend. "Oh, hadn't I? Why? Because it's too good for Clarissa, or too expensive for me? Of course you daren't imply the first; and as for me I've had a windfall, and am blowing it in on the ladies."

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon