And he felt as if it were a comfort to him to see her suffering thus,as if this anguish mitigated his resentment and diminished his mother'sload of opprobrium.
Et il lui semblait que son coeur à lui se soulageait à la voir ainsitorturée, que cette douleur allégeait son ressentiment, diminuait ladette d'opprobre de sa mère.