XLIX Constancy Is a Virtue Among the Narrow Minded You did not then know, Marquis, that it is often more difficult to get rid of a mistress than to acquire one?

It is seldom that passion ceases in both parties at the same time, and then constancy is a veritable tyrant; I compare it to the tyrant of antiquity who put people to death by tying them to dead bodies.

In the "Lettres d'un Voyageur," however, she gives us to understand that constancy is not her forte, and a sigh escapes with this confession, "Prie pour moi, ô Marguerite Le Conte!"

Constancy with us is a duty; you give way to the slightest distaste without scruple.

Not even Cousin Harry's constancy would have been proof against a withered, whining, sentimental old maid.

He is a faithful consort, too, which is saying not a little in the days when Royal constancy, on the male side, is the rarest of jewels.

"Constancy is his first good point.

Constancy is the phenomenon.