"I didn't think anything.

I never think a step further than I'm obliged to." "That's perfectly false, I believe," she returned--"except that you may, no doubt, often pull up when things become TOO ugly; or even, I'll say, to save you a protest, too beautiful.

At any rate, even so far as it's true, we've thrust on you appearances that you've had to take in and that have therefore made your obligation.

Ugly or beautiful--it doesn't matter what we call them--you were getting on without them, and that's where we're detestable.

We bore you--that's where we are.