She was by nature cheerful, peaceable and fond of laughter, but her constant misfortunes and reverses had made her desire and demand so fiercely that everyone should live in peace and happiness and not dare to live in any other way that the very slightest dissonance in her life, the very slightest rebuff, would immediately send her into a state bordering upon frenzy, and in a single flash, after the most resplendent hopes and fantasies, she would begin to curse fate, raging at anything that was on hand and beating her head against the wall.
