The Chain
She was one of those appealing and charismatic girls born, as if by a mistake of destiny, into a kinship of clerks. She had no gift, no prospects, no means of becoming recognized, tacit, loved or much less wedded by a man of prosperity and merit; and so, she let herself be wed to a unimportant bureaucrat at the Ministry of Education. She donned herself quite plainly since she had never been able to afford anything better, but she was as displeased as if she had once been so called well-to-do. Females do not belong to a status or grade; their attractiveness, beauty, and usual fascination take over the place of birth and family. Usual grace, inherent classiness and a rapid wittiness decide their place in the social order of things and make the daughters of commoners the equals of the most upheld ladies. She suffered unendingly, sensing that she was eligible to all the elegances and extravagances of life. She suffered because of the destitution of her living quarters as she gla...