All families lived in a wasteful atmosphere of custom and kissed one another with secret indifference. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone.
Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song. “The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
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