Hearing the disturbance, the Superintendent would march in with the airs of a Police Inspector and bid Jean: "Be firm, sir! be firm!" Far from taking his advice, Jean affected an excessive easiness of temper.

As frivolous as she was deeply depraved and baseminded in her calculating easiness of virtue, she had more ambition than comported with her mental calibre or her force of character; she had taken it into her head to govern, by turns promoting and overthrowing the ministers, herself proffering advice to the king, sometimes to good purpose, but more often still with a levity as fatal as her obstinacy.

Makes he no greater hast to our embraces, Or doth the easiness abate his edge?

Wisdom comprehends at once the end and the means, estimates easiness or difficulty, and is cautious or confident in due proportion.