And that's terrible." The Prince had listened; but, always with propriety, he didn't commit himself.

"Terrible ?" "Well, unless one is almost as good as she.

It makes too easy terms for one.

It takes stuff, within one, so far as one's decency is concerned, to stand it.

And nobody," Charlotte continued in the same manner, "is decent enough, good enough, to stand it--not without help from religion, or something of that kind.