To please my aunt I was obliged to swallow a dose of every drug.

I don't know how it is I have survived.

They made me ugly.

They robbed me of the only thing I possessed, and it is impossible for you to love me as I love you." She broke off and wept, and after kissing Laurent, continued with bitter hatred: "I do not wish them any harm.

They brought me up, they received me, and shielded me from misery.