It would n't serve; I was beaten and broken; they were stronger than I.Now it 's another affair!" "It seems to me you have a large chance for happiness yet," said Rowland, vaguely.
"Happiness?
I mean to cultivate rapture; I mean to go in for bliss ineffable! You remember I told you that I was, in part, the world's and the devil's.

Now they have taken me all.

It was their choice; may they never repent!" "I shall hear of you," said Rowland.
"You will hear of me.

And whatever you do hear, remember this: I was sincere!" Prince Casamassima had approached, and Rowland looked at him with a good deal of simple compassion as a part of that "world" against which Christina had launched her mysterious menace.

It was obvious that he was a good fellow, and that he could not, in the nature of things, be a positively bad husband; but his distinguished inoffensiveness only deepened the infelicity of Christina's situation by depriving her defiant attitude of the sanction of relative justice.