She was one of those pretty and ____ girls born She suffered endlessly, feeling she was entitled to all the delicacies and ____ of life. She dreamed of silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestries, lit from above by torches in bronze holders, while two tall footmen in knee-length breeches napped in huge armchairs, sleepy from the stove's ____ warmth. She had no dresses, no ____, nothing; and these were the only things she loved. She tore open the paper and ____ out a card, on which was printed the words. Give your ____ to a friend whose wife has better clothes than I do. "I don't know exactly, but I think I could do it with four hundred ____. I'm upset that I have no jewels, not a single stone to wear. I will look ____. I would almost rather not go to the party. Madame Forestier went to her mirrored ____, took out a large box, brought it back, opened it, and said to Madame Loisel Suddenly she discovered, in a black satin box, a superb ____ necklace, and her heart began to beat with uncontrolled ____. She was prettier than all the other women, ____, gracious, smiling, and full of joy. She danced wildly, with ____, drunk on ____, forgetting everything in the triumph of her beauty, in the glory of her success, in a sort of cloud of ____, made up of all this respect, all this admiration, all these awakened desires, of that sense of triumph that is so sweet to a woman's heart He threw over her shoulders the clothes he had brought for her to go outside in, the ____ clothes of an ordinary life, whose poverty contrasted sharply with the elegance of the ball dress. In front of the mirror, she took off the clothes around her shoulders, taking a final look at herself in all her ____. Are you sure you still had it on when you left the ____ He went to the police, to the newspapers to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere the tiniest ____ of hope led him. You must write to your friend," he said, "tell her you have broken the ____ of her necklace and that you are having it mended. It will give us time to look some more. And so they went from jeweler to jeweler, looking for an necklace like the other one, consulting their memories, both sick with ____ and ____ She came to know the ____ of housework, the ____ labors of the kitchen. She washed the dishes, staining her rosy nails on greasy pots and the bottoms of pans. Oh, my poor Mathilde! Mine was an ____ It was worth five hundred francs at most!

the Necklace

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