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* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', Bella refuses to accept any of Edward's expensive gifts, to show how moral and role-model-perfect she is. For about two seconds. [[Broken Aesop|Then she turns up with them in the next scene.]]
* The [[Furry Fandom|Furry]] novel, ''The Fangs Of Kaath'', has Sandrhi the bat street storyteller. When she manages to reunite with her love, Prince Raschid, after all that has happened, she is made part of the royal household staff. While after years of living in poverty, she appreciates the tailormade silken clothing she got in the process of finding Raschid again, then sharing his apartment in the Palace and having all the food she could want, that is as far it goes. Beyond that, she is adamant that Raschid, who would love to literally bury her in treasure to make her happy, should save his money for a possible future emergency when he might need all of it. As she says softly, but firmly, "I already haff my treasure. I didn't come to you because you v'ere rich."
* In the ''[[In Death]]'' novels, Eve's relationship with Roarke occurs in spite of his obscene wealth rather than because of it. She is horrified when he presents her with an enormous diamond as a souvenir from a trip to Australia, and after their marriage she not only refuses to think of his assets as hers, she gets mad at him when she realizes he's been putting funds into an account in her name and demands that he take it back.
* Sam Vimes in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels is also less than interested in high finance, although he's made exceptions when it was something very
* ''[[Jane Eyre]]'': When Jane agrees to marry Rochester the first time, he tries to lavish expensive gifts on her, which the independent Jane is decidedly uncomfortable with. (She never really gets over it,
* In the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel ''The Sign of The Four'', Watson falls madly in love with Holmes' latest client, Mary Morstan. She seems to like him, too, but there's a
* [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]] often used this trope, occasionally poking fun at it. Chuffy is particularly adverse to being thought of as a fortune hunter when he woos the wealthy Pauline Stoker in ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Thank You, Jeeves]]'', partly because [[Discussed Trope|he has experience of the trope from watching musical comedies]]. In the aptly-titled ''Uneasy Money'' the trope is the main source of romantic conflict for the couple involved and is [[Zig Zagged Trope|zigzagged]] quite a bit before the necessary happy ending takes
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