A Search for Freedom #233241

Appearances. Might confess her poverty, but she would not. They might confess the fact that her husband was one of the most trifling, dissipated men in the community, but She would not. They might speak volumes of her degraded and unlovely life, but she would not. Her native queenhood was inviolable. She felt it to be so; and what was more, I felt it too; and I know to this day that what I dined upon was not beans, but the ambrosia of the gods, and served by one of them.