Chapter 1
Valancy lying in bed contemplating her loveless twenty-nine years: 'Nothing had ever happened to her; nothing could ever happen to her.'
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From The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
Valancy is introduced as a downtrodden, plain spinster called 'Doss' by her family, suffocating under the tyranny of her mother and Cousin Stickles.
Chapter 2
The breakfast scene with her mother and Cousin Stickles, showing the daily humiliations of her home life.
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