You need not bribe me with coin, my lady. I would gladly aid you in your own endeavors, if you wished to work towards such a goal. [he'll help, but it won't be a gift. Teach a woman to garden, rather than merely gift her one. Some manner of idiom, akin to that.]

I'm sure all such places had their own, unique beauty to them! I did always enjoy the majesty of each new landscape, in my own traveling. My people lived in the Below Lands, that is to say, entirely beneath the ground. I had not even seen the Sun until I was nearly twenty years of age. [he likes this story, smiling to admit, with funny enthusiasm rather than any shame nor embarrassment]

The first time I saw the sky, so vast in all directions, I fainted!