He had not understood, he said, that I was becoming attached to her, but when he saw with his own eyes that it was really so, and that she might be taken away from him, it gave him such a shock that for a time he was not responsible for what he said or did.
Il m’assura qu’il n’avait pas compris que j’étais devenu amoureux d’elle ; quand il le vit de ses propres yeux et quand il comprit qu’il pourrait être privé de sa sœur, il en éprouva un tel choc qu’il perdit momentanément le contrôle de ses paroles et de ses actes.