The principle that suits best with the Hill is Respect for the Proprieties.

We have not much money; entre nous, we have no great rank.

Our policy is, then, to set up the Proprieties as an influence which money must court and rank is afraid of.

I had learned just before Mr.Vigors called on me that Lady Sarah Bellasis entertained the idea of hiring Abbots' House.
London has set its face against her; a provincial town would be more charitable.

An earl's daughter, with a good income and an awfully bad name, of the best manners and of the worst morals, would have made sad havoc among the Proprieties.