But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
Mais elle n’avait jamais compris comme elle le faisait maintenant les désavantages réservés aux enfants nés d’une union si mal assortie, ni le bonheur qu’auraient pu ajouter a leur existence les qualités tres réelles de leur pere, s’il avait seulement pris la peine de les cultiver davantage.