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Quote #10
"Oh, my poor Mathilde. But mine were false. At most they were worth five hundred francs!" (128)
Mathilde's just found and out that she and her husband have spent the last ten years suffering to replace a fake necklace not worth a fiftieth of what they thought. Mathilde could have avoided the whole situation if she'd only told Mme. Forestier about it and found out it was a fake. But she didn't, and so all the suffering she and her husband have gone through was for nothing. Suffering becomes a whole lot worse if it seems meaningless.