The Importance of Goodness

Maggie Verver had asked the prince if it would be good for him to eat his father alive. He replied that he was a gallon twalmo, chopped up and smothered in sauce with half the parts left out. She said she thought Mr Fiverr 'was simply the best man I've ever seen in my life' The prince's reply: "I don't feel anything much can now either hurt me or help me"