“Well,” he asked The Expert with the eyes, “how much would you say?”
The Expert said that the real value of the painting couldn’t be set in Romania, but only with those who knew Ingres. Here, in the country, the price was doomed to be compared with the usual offers, that is, almost nothing. It was better that Nacu the engineer take it at a commercial price so that the piece wouldn’t be lost.
“Sixty thousand,” Saferian decided timidly. George CĂLINESCU, Poor Ioanide, 1954