“Slowly the count ate his dinner, enjoying every morsel that he took with that thoughtful, counscious pleasure which young men never attain in eating and drinking, and which men as they grow older so often forget to acquire. But the count never forgot any of his own capacities for pleasure, and in all things made the most of his resources. to be rich is not to have one or ten thousand a year, but to be able to get out of that one or ten thousand all that every pound, and every shilling, and every penny, will give you. After this fashion the count was a rich man.”
