Book: New dress

There were ten of them in the family; there was always not enough money, always had to squeeze, fight; and they did not get out of the nasty troubles.

But how stupid, petty, insignificant, and at her age, having two children, so dependent on someone else's opinion, it's time to have your own principles.

How much humility and patience a person has, and what miserable, poor, miserable joys a person can be content with.

We all fight like flies, climbing out of the saucer, Mabel thought, and repeated this phrase - so they cross themselves with the cross, so tell fortunes in order to relieve pain, to make confusion bearable. Quotations from Shakespeare, lines from books read a hundred years ago, always suddenly popped up in moments of confusion, and she repeated them endlessly.

And that hour the torment that she was always trying to hide, the deep anguish, the feeling that had been planted from childhood that she was the worst of all, came over her inexorably, ruthlessly, with a sharpness that she could not overcome, as it used to be at home, waking up at night, she overcame it with the help of Walter Scott.