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Nature does not stop to lament over any single victim of human society . When misery is the deepest , there is something awful in this perpetual and smiling round of natural movements . It teaches profoundly the insignificance of the atoms of creation . -LCB- rez de chaussee = ground floor -RCB- Adrienne had risen earlier than common , even , this morning , determined to get through with her task by noon , for she was actually sewing on the lace , and her impatience would not permit her to resume the work of the milliner that day , at least . For the last month she had literally lived on dry bread herself ; at first with a few grapes to give her appetite a little gratification , but toward the last , on nothing but bread and water . She had not suffered so much from a want of food , however , as from a want of air and exercise ; from unremitting , wasting toil at a sedentary occupation , from hope deferred and from sleepless nights . Then she wanted the cheering association of sympathy .