The past seemed to her sensitive nature as if it were one of the main causes of her illness, and a sort of superstition led her to hope that God would restore to her both health and beauty in return for her repentance and conversion.
Le passé lui apparaissait comme une des causes principales de sa maladie, et une sorte de superstition lui fit espérer que Dieu lui laisserait la beauté et la santé, en échange de son repentir et de sa conversion.