I shall not live long enough, I expect, to have the happiness of pressing the hand which has written the kind letter I have just received; the words of it would be enough to cure me, if anything could cure me.
Je ne vivrai sans doute pas assez longtemps pour avoir le bonheur de serrer la main qui a écrit la bonne lettre que je viens de recevoir et dont les paroles me guériraient, si quelque chose pouvait me guérir.