When you were nineteen, and it was the first time you had been let down, you did not make scenes. You felt as if your back was broken, as if you woul… - Wide Sargasso Sea

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When you were nineteen, and it was the first time you had been let down, you did not make scenes. You felt as if your back was broken, as if you would never move again. But you did not make a scene. That started later on, when the same thing had happened five or six times over, and you were supposed to be getting used to it. (chapter 6)