12/34 Any one can see you were altogether more beautiful." "No, no, dear; I was always heavier. Never half so charming as you are." "Well, but what is the use of my being charming, if it is to end in my being dull and not minding anything? Marriage is the only happy state for a woman, as I trust you will prove." "I will not put up with it if it is not a happy state. I am determined to be happy--at least not to go on muddling away my life as other people do, being and doing nothing remarkable. I have made up my mind not to let other people interfere with me as they have done. |