The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway, and asserting a right to predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last: yes,--and to speak.
La souffrance et l'amour avaient excité chez moi une violente émotion, qui s'efforçait de devenir maîtresse absolue, de dominer, de régner et de parler.