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She and her women were always making jams , jellies , candies , cakes and the like for me to eat ; so I never knew the pleasure of hunger . My clothes were the gayest satins and velvets , richly made and sewn with gold and silver braid ; so it was impossible to wish for more in the way of apparel . They let me study my lessons whenever I felt like it and go fishing or hunting as I pleased ; so I could not complain that I was unable to do just as I wanted to . All the servants obeyed my slightest wish : if I wanted to sit up late at night no one objected ; if I wished to lie in bed till noon they kept the house quiet so as not to disturb me . `` This condition of affairs , as you may imagine , grew more and more tedious and exasperating the older I became . Try as I might , I could find nothing to complain of . I once saw the son of one of our servants receive a flogging ; and my heart grew light .