I was profoundly disgusted.

I struggled vainly against it, but she insisted frivolously and obstinately, and I surrendered.

The last justification of our life as wretches was thereby suppressed, and life became baser than ever.
"The peasant and the workingman need children, and hence their conjugal relations have a justification.

But we, when we have a few children, have no need of any more.

They make a superfluous confusion of expenses and joint heirs, and are an embarrassment.