Mathilda lives in Paris, in a relatively modest apartment, where the walls are "bare" and the chairs are "shabby." You might say that, in Mathilda's imagination, she lives in an opulent mansion where she is attended to by many servants and presented with expensive, fancy meals. But the truth of her situation is that she's not a member of the aristocracy; she's married to a clerk, and they share that very basic and somewhat rundown apartment....
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