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《The Necklace》.pdf
The Necklace
by Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
SHE WAS ONE OF THOSE PRETTY AND CHARMING GIRLS BORN, as though fate had blundered over
her, into a family of artisans. She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known,
understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction; and she let herself be married off to a little
clerk in the Ministry of Education. Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to afford any other,
but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her; for women have no caste or class, their beauty,
grace, and charm serving them for birth or family. their natural delicacy, their instinctive elegance, their
nimbleness of wit, are their only mark of rank, and put the slum girl on a level with the highest lady in the land.
She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury. She suffered from the poorness of her
house, from its mean walls, worn chairs, and ugly curtains. All these things, of which other women of her class
would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her. The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do
the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind. She imagined silent
antechambers, heavy with Oriental tapestries, lit by torches in lofty bronze sockets, with two tall footmen in
knee-breeches sleeping in large arm-chairs, overcome by the heavy warmth of the stove. She imagined vast
saloons hung with antique silks, exquisite pieces of furniture supporting priceless ornaments, and small,
charming, perfumed rooms, created just for little parties of intimate friends, men who were famous and sought
after, whose homage roused every other womans envious longings.
When she sat down for dinner at the round table covered with a three-days
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