He used all the caution that he was able in letting me know a thing which it would have been a double cruelty to have concealed; and yet it was too much for me; for as grief had overset me before, so did joy overset me now, and I fell into a much more dangerous swooning than I did at first, and it was not without a great difficulty that I was recovered at all.
Il usa de toute la précaution possible à me faire savoir ce qu'il eût été d'une double cruauté de me dissimuler, car ainsi que la douleur m'avait bouleversée avant, ainsi la joie me bouleversa-t-elle maintenant et je tombai dans une pâmoison plus dangereuse que la première, et ce ne fut pas sans peine que je revins à moi.