In your father's house there was not enough broth to go round, and yet you are now throwing money about as if you were a princess!
— from The Marvellous History of the Shadowless Man, and The Cold Heart by Adelbert von Chamisso
You are the son of the noblest and the richest man for miles round, and yet you are not so happy as I am.”
— from The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau
“You sigh,” she returned, “and yet you are not unhappy, are you?”
— from The House of Armour by Marshall Saunders
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