This provoked him to the last degree, and he called me not only an unkind wife, but an unnatural mother, and asked me how I could entertain such a thought without horror, as that of leaving my two children (for one was dead) without a mother, and to be brought up by strangers, and never to see them more.
Ceci le provoqua au dernier degré, et il me traita pas seulement de femme cruelle, mais de mère dénaturée, et me demanda comment je pouvais entretenir sans horreur la pensée de laisser mes deux enfants sans mère (car il y en avait un de mort) et de ne plus jamais les revoir.