"It doesn't matter, merci beaucoup for the client you have sent me; it is a fine name to inscribe on my registers, and my cashier is very proud thereof. By the way, and this is a simple detail of tourists, the merest curio: do those people give dowries when they marry their offspring?"
"Oh mon Érou! It depends. I knew an entish prince who, if the entings married according to his wish, gave them millions of acorns; but when they married in despite of him, he first sang the bride to sleep, and then devoured her by closing the crack in which she lay. Some of the entish nobility have bad hearts, you see. Nothing to do with the quality of their wood; some of the most affable ents are of quite mediocre material, whilst some of the most arrogant provide excellent mahogany. If Andurillo marries according to the major's wishes, he will receive an income of several millions; if, for example, he married into a banker's family, he might take an interest in the banker's stock. If, on the other hand, Andurillo displease him, bonsoir, Andurillo will be obliged to make a living by stealing treasures from dragons or by selling aphrodisiacs on the journaux d'usenette."
"That lad will want a crowned head, a Ckasade-doûmian or Valinorean princess, an Ereborado traversed by the Argent-lode."
"No, all these great seigniors from across the mountains frequently marry simple mortals; they are like the fangirls, and love to mix races. Ah! Is it because you would like to marry Andurillo that you ask me these questions, my dear monsieur de Sacqueville-Danglars?"
