I returned, with the same concern for him, that I could not bear to hear him talk so; that, on the contrary, if he could propose any probable method of living, I would do anything that became me on my part, and that I would live as close and as narrow as he could desire.
Je répondis, en lui témoignant un intérêt pareil, que je ne pouvais supporter de l'entendre parler ainsi; qu'au contraire, s'il pouvait proposer quelque manière de vivre qui fût possible, que je ferais de mon mieux, et que je vivrais aussi strictement qu'il pourrait le désirer.