The dainty slippers and stockings, the delicately frilled skirts and petticoats, the laces, ribbons, hair-combs, purses, all touched her with individual desire, and she felt keenly the fact that not any of these things were in the range of her purchase.

• 那些精美的舞鞋和长统袜,饰有漂亮绉边的裙子和衬裙,还有花边、缎带、梳子、钱包,这一切的一切都激起了她的种种欲望,但她痛苦地认识到这里没有一样东西是她买得起的。