But it is
not so. You would shrink from the hard work involved in emigrating and
making yourself a new home abroad; at the same time you would be lowered
in your own eyes if you gave your children into the care of others.
Then, since for the next few years you will never resign yourself to
single life, and are not likely to find a husband, you must so arrange
your love affairs that they escape the attention of the world. Why
should you mix them up with your home life and your children? What you
need are prudence and calculation; but you have neither.
You will never fix your life on a firm basis until you have relegated
men to the true place they occupy in your existence. If you could only
make yourself see clearly the fallacy of thinking that every man you
meet is going to love you for eternity. A woman like yourself can
attract lovers by the dozen; but yours is not the temperament to inspire
a serious relationship which might become a lasting friendship. If you
constantly see yourself left in the lurch and abandoned by your admirers
before you have tired of them yourself, it is because you always delude
yourself on this point.
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