- "It's not a bad idea though," said the baron, feeling the edge of the weapon; "a man killing himself because he has too much money."
- "Pooh!" said the apparition, petulantly, "no better than a man's killing himself because he has none or little."
- Whether the genius unintentionally committed himself in saying this, or whether he thought the baron's mind was so thoroughly made up
- that it didn't matter what he said, I have no means of knowing. I only know that the baron stopped his hand, all of a sudden,
- opened his eyes wide, and looked as if quite a new light had come upon him for the first time.
- "Why, certainly," said Von Koëldwethout, "nothing is too bad to be retrieved." "Except empty coffers," cried the genius.
