Finally! It has been a long, miserable ten years but finally I had paid off the debt I had been drowning in for, oh, so many years! My dear friend, Mme. Forestier, who had loaned me a beautiful piece of jewlery, did not even see a difference! Now everything is paid back and I can go on happy and stress free. "I was not happy to dismiss my servant, change my lodgings, or rent a garret", but whatever I needed to pay I would pay it. I came to know what heavy housework ment and "the odious cares of the kitchen." I washed dishes, including greasy pots and pans. I "washed the dirty linen, the skirts, and the dish-cloths, which dried upon a line;" I "carried the slops down to the street every morning, and carried up the water, stopping for breath at every landing. And, dressed like a women of the people," I "went to the fruiterer, the grocer, the butcher," with my basket "bargaining, insulted," it was not something I would have ever wished for.
--- All quotes by Guy De Maupassant
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