FLAMMARION Living without happiness and not wasting away

"She spends her life bawling and tarring the breaches in the hold so that the family does not sink. For if the little ones cherish her, if they love her gentleness, her indulgence, her tenderness, they would prefer, and by far, to be like their father. Children can be cruel animals. The Father, who is sensitive, nicknames her “Miss Martyr.”