There are many people who lust after the things of this world, but some folks just do it too much.

Guy de Montpast, today on the Classic Tales podcast.

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I think one of the reasons I love Guillaude Mopin's writing so much is that his taste seems to be like mine.

I'm no master of the short story like he is,

but when you start a Moposant story, you never know where it will take you. It could be vampires, mental illness, or a story about the unfair plight of women with an effective

and seemingly effortless denouement. Today's story is one of his most famous and often

anthologized. I hope you like it. And now, the diamond necklace by Guy de Mopisonde.

The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.

She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich or distinguished man.

So, she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.

She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy, as if she had really fallen from a higher station.

Since with women there is neither caste nor rank, for beauty, grace, and charm take the place of

family and birth. Natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of

women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies. Matilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself

born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries. She was distressed at the poverty

of her dwelling, at the bareness of the walls, at the shabby chairs, the ugliness of the curtains,

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