The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Then make yourself quite easy. M. Danglars would give double that sum
to attain the same end."

"Am I, indeed, so happy?" said Albert, who still could not prevent an
almost imperceptible cloud passing across his brow. "But, my dear count,
has M. Danglars any reason?"

"Ah, there is your proud and selfish nature. You would expose the
self-love of another with a hatchet, but you shrink if your own is
attacked with a needle."

"But yet M. Danglars appeared"--

"Delighted with you, was he not? Well, he is a man of bad taste, and is
still more enchanted with another. I know not whom; look and judge for
yourself."