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= Mother and Daughter =
We are not on good terms, mamma and I, She is hard, exacting, unreasonable; she is proud, ambitious, worldly; she is deeply embittered against me because I am not a social success, because I am not brilliant, attractive. Her one thought, by day and by night, has been the promotion of my interests -- from her own selfish standpoint. I am never consulted -- always ignored, and my feelings trampled upon. My slightest objection fills her with indignant surprise, and is met with a prompt rebuke and a _dictum_, from which there is absolutely no appeal. Always unwilling, yet always obedient -- passively obedient.