The Necklace
By Guy de Maupassant© 2006 by http://www.
HorrorMasters.
com
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny,
born in a family of clerks.
She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of...
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The Necklace
By Guy de Maupassant© 2006 by http://www.
HorrorMasters.
com
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny,
born in a family of clerks.
She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known,
understood, loved, wedded, by any rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to
a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction.
She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was as unhappy as though she
had really fallen from her proper station; since with women there is neither caste nor rank; and
beauty, grace, and charm act instead of family and birth.
Natural fineness, instinct for what is
elegant, suppleness of wit, are the sole hierarchy, and make from women of the people the equals
of the very greatest ladies.
She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries.
She
suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched
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