"Your tastes in eating and drinking, too," she continued, "are a little on the sybaritic side.

Have you realized what it will mean to give all these things up--to wear coarse clothes, to eat coarse food, to get your books from a cheap library, and look at other people's flowers ?" Jeanne frowned.

The idea was certainly not pleasing.
"It will be bad for you," the Princess continued, "and it will be very much worse for me, because I have been used to these things all my life.

You may think me very brutal at having tried to help you toward the only means of escape for either of us, but I think, dear, you scarcely realize the alternative.

It is not only what you condemn yourself to.