My Husband and I

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Excerpt from My Husband and I: And Other StoriesI had passed my seventeenth birthday, and it had been my mother's intention to go to St. Petersburg that winter, so that I might be formally introduced into society. My mother's loss had been a great grief to me, but I must confess that in the midst of my sorrow for her, I also felt a painful shrinking from the thought of Spending another winter in the death-like solitude of the country.After a time the mingled emotions of loneliness, grief, and lassitude attained to such a degree that I scarcely ever left my room, never opened the piano, or took a book in my hand. When Macha urged me to occupy myself with this thing or that, my answer was always the same I cannot I have no heart for it, ' while a voice within me whispered: Why try to make anything of myself since the best days of my life are slipping away so drearily? To this depressing query I had but one reply - tears.I heard them say I was much altered and was growing thinner, but I cared nothing for that. Why should I trouble myself on that account, since it seemed that I was doomed to spend the remainder of my life in this cheerless solitude - a thought which took from me all strength of will, and almost the desire to escape.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.