This put her affection out of suspicion of mercenary ends, and showed that she loved, but not for gain;and that her professions, the less ostentatious they were, had so much the more of truth and sincerity than her sisters'.
'You've been talking of Paracelsus, ' he said. 'There is one of his experiments which the doctor has withheld from you. You will find it neither mean nor mercenary, but it is very terrible.
Think no unfair evil of her, pray: she had no wicked plots, nothing sordid or mercenary; in fact, she never thought of money except as something necessary which other people would always provide.