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She was one of those pretty, charming women who is born, as if by an error of fate, into A petty official’s family. She had no dowry, no hopes, nor the slightest chance of being loved and married by a rich man- so she slipped into marriage with a minor civil servant.
Unable to afford jewels, she dressed simply: But she was wretched, for women have neither case not breeding- in the beauty, grace, and charm replace pride of birth, innate refinement, instinctive elegance, and wit give them their place on the only scale that counts, and these make humble girls the peers of the grandest ladies.
She suffered, feeling that every luxury should rightly have been hers. The poverty of her rooms, the shabby walls, the worn furniture, the ugly upholstery caused her pain. All these things that another woman of her class would not even have noticed made her angry. The very sight of the little Breton girl who cleaned for her awoke rueful thoughts and the wildest dreams in her mind. She dreamt of rooms with Oriental hangings, lighted by tall, bronze torches, and with two huge footmen in knee breeches made drowsy by the heat from the stove, asleep in the wide armchairs. She dreamt of great drawing rooms upholstered in old silks, with fragile little holding priceless knickknacks, and of enchanting little sitting rooms designed for tea- time chats with famous sought – after en whose attentions all women longed for. She sat down to dinner at her round table with is three- day- old cloth, and watched her husband lift the lid of the soup tureen and delightedly exclaim: “Ah, a good homemade beef stew! There’s nothing better!” she visualized elegant dinners with gleaming silver and gorgeous china. She yearned for wall handlings peopled with knights and ladies and exotic brides in a fairy forest. She dreamt of eating the pink flesh of trout or the wings of grouse. She had no proper wardrobe, no jewels, nothing. And those were the only things that she loved – she felt she was made for them. She would have so loved to charm to be envied, to be admired and sought after dowry: property women brought to her husband in marriage.