How crucial money was, exactly as novelists claimed. People married and merdered for it, flattered and threatended, rode bareback, tutored dullards, wore themselves out on the boards.

• 钱是多么重要，和小说家说的完全一样。人们为它喜结连理，，为它互相残杀，为它阿谀奉承，威胁恫吓，为它甘冒大险，为它自甘下贱，为它粉墨登场，直到精疲力尽。