How can I go into society, when to manage properly you want a lot of cabs, varnished boots, gold watch chains, and all sorts of things; you have to wear white doeskin gloves that cost six francs in the morning, and primrose kid gloves every evening? A fig for that old humbug of a Goriot!"
Nolaz joanen ote naiz mundurat, han taiuz jokatu ahal izateko, ezin konta ahala gauza behar ditudala: cabrioletak, bota ziratuak, baitezpadako edergailuak, urrezko kateak, goizetik hasi eta orkatzezko eskularru zuriak, sei libera gosta direnak, eta gauez beti ere eskularru horiak?