Question

1) Drawbacks of being born in to a family of clerks ?

2)Why did Mathilde weep with misery after visiting her schoolmate?

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Mathilde was a pretty and charming girl, born, as if by an error of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no means of becoming known, understood, loved or be wedded to an aristocrat, and so she let herself be married to a minor official at the Ministry of Education. She dressed plainly, because she had never been able to afford anything better. She suffered endlessly feeling she was entitled to all the hunuries of life. She suffered because of her shabby, poorly furnished house. All these things, that another woman of her class would not even have noticed, tormented her and made her resentful She dreamed of a grand, palatial mansion, with vast rooms and inviting smaller rooms, perfumed for aftemoon chats with close friends Yet, she had no rich dresses, no jewels, nothing; and these were the only things she loved. She wanted so much to charm, to be envied, to be sought after She had a rich friend, a former schoolmate at the convent, whom she avoided visiting, because afterwards she would weep with regret, despair and misery. One evening her husband came home with an air of triumph, holding a large envelope in his hand. "Look," he said. "There's something for you." She tore open the paper and drew out a card, on which was printed the words: "The Minister of Education and Mme Georges Rampouneau request the pleasure of M. and Mme Loisel's. company at the Ministry, on the evening of Monday, January 18th."​

Answer 1

Answer:

The purpose of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, which works in nine districts in Western and Mid-Western Development Regions, is to fulfill the basic needs and ensure rights of access of the poorest and excluded households to safe domestic water, good health and hygiene through decentralized governance 

Answer 2

A soil horizon is a layer parallel to the soil surface whose physical, chemical and biological characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath. Horizons are defined in many cases by obvious physical features, mainly colour and texture