She suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born for the delicacies and all the luxuries, she suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn- out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains. All those thinks, of which another women of her rank would never even have been conscious, tortured her and made her angry. The sight of the little Breton peasant who did her humble house-work aroused in her regrets which were despairing, and distracted dreams. She thought of the silent antechambers hung with oriental tapestry, lit by tall bronze candelabra, land of the two great footman in knee-breeches two sleep in the big arm-chairs, made drowsy by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove. She thought of the long salons fitted up with ancient silk of the delicate furniture carrying priceless curiosities, and of the coquettish perfumed boudoirs made for talks at five o’clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire.