Lalka with delivery to Ireland

"– They're silly, these young women (…) They imagine that if one of them catches a rich husband, and a handsome lover besides, her life will be full… Silly things. They don't know that before long the old husband and the empty-headed lover will begin to pall, and that sooner or later every one of them will want to know a real human being. And if one does turn up, to her misfortune, what will she have to give him?… The charms she has sold, or a heart sullied by the likes of this Starski?…
And to think that almost every one of them has to go through a similar school before she gets to know people. Until then, even if the noblest of men came her way, she wouldn't appreciate him. She will choose an old rich man or a bold rogue, waste her life in their company, and only later will she want to be reborn… Usually too late and in vain!…"