"Jane, I never meant to wound you thus. If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine.
Jane, je n'ai point eu l'intention de vous blesser ainsi; si l'homme possédant une seule petite brebis qui lui est chère comme sa fille, qui mange son pain, boit dans sa coupe et dort sur son sein, la conduit par mégarde à la boucherie et la tue, il ne se repentira pas plus devant la blessure sanglante que moi devant ce que j'ai fait.