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“Now Mother no longer had any money. She had spent it all on us, on Naoji and myself, without begrudging us a penny, and she was being forced to leave the house where she had passed so many years to enter on a life of misery in a cottage without a single servant […] For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.”