She had no marriage portion, no expectations, no means of getting known, understood, loved, and wedded by a man of wealth and distinction.Guy de Maupassant
She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station.Guy de Maupassant
She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumph of her beauty, in the pride of her success.Guy de Maupassant
It was worth forty thousand francs. And I would have been glad to lay my hands on them.Madame Forestier
It was a halcyon day; and as the text is, the twenty-four years of their married life were a sustained lie.Guy de Maupassant
What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? who knows? How strange and changeful is life!Guy de Maupassant
She would be unable to explain; he would not believe her; he would laugh at her; he would think she was stealing the first.Guy de Maupassant
My poor Mathilde, how you are changed!Madame Forestier
I am quite sure that it was I who lent you the necklace.Madame Forestier
Suddenly she discovered, in a black satin box, a superb diamond necklace; her heart began to beat covetously. Her hands trembled as she lifted it.Guy de Maupassant