She suffered endlessly, feeling she was entitled to all the delicacies and luxuries of life. Natural delicacy, instinctive elegance and a quick wit determine their place in society, and make the daughters of commoners the equals of the very finest ladies. Women don't belong to a caste or class their beauty, grace, and natural charm take the place of birth and family. ![]() ![]() She dressed plainly because she had never been able to afford anything better, but she was as unhappy as if she had once been wealthy. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of becoming known, understood, loved or wedded by a man of wealth and distinction and so she let herself be married to a minor official at the Ministry of Education. She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks.
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