Tenderness, care, real solicitude for her well-being, she had never known, and had come to regard the unevenness of her life, vacillating between knocks and knick-knacks, with a blow one day and a jewel the next, as the condition of things which was natural to her. 
She had never known real tenderness and care, and had come to regard a blow one day and a jewel the next as the natural condition of things. 