| Back | YOUR sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible: and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that--and how little could the utmost of your single management do to stop the ruin which had begun before your marriage?-- Beyond THAT, had you endeavoured, however reasonably, to abridge HIS enjoyments, is it not to be feared, that instead of prevailing on feelings so selfish to consent to it, you would have lessened your own influence on his heart, and made him regret the connection which had involved him in such difficulties?" |
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| Front | Sé que tu sentido del honor y de la honestidad te habría llevado, al darte cuenta de la situación, a intentar todos los ahorros que te parecieran posibles; y quizá, mientras tu frugalidad disminuyera sólo tu bienestar, podrías haberla resistido, pero más allá de eso (y, ¿qué podría haber hecho hasta el mayor de tus esfuerzos aislados para detener una ruina que había comenzado antes de tu matrimonio?), más allá de eso, si hubieras intentado, incluso de la forma más razonable, limitar sus diversiones, ¿no habría sido de temer que en vez de inducir a alguien de sentimientos tan egoístas para que consintiera en ello, habrías terminado por debilitar tu influencia en su corazón y hacerlo arrepentirse de la unión que le había significado tales dificultades? |
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