Here one evening, taking a walk into the fields, I told him I would now make the proposal to him I had told him of; accordingly I related to him how I had lived in Virginia, that I had a mother I believed was alive there still, though my husband was dead some years. I told him that had not my effects miscarried, which, by the way, I magnified pretty much, I might have been fortune good enough to him to have kept us from being parted in this manner.
Là, un soir, nous promenant aux champs, je lui dis que j'allais maintenant lui faire la proposition que je lui avais dite; et en effet je lui racontai comment j'avais vécu en Virginie, et que j'y avais ma mère, qui, croyais-je, était encore en vie, quoique mon mari dût être mort depuis plusieurs années; je lui dis que si mes effets ne s'étaient perdus en mer, et d'ailleurs je les exagérai assez, j'aurais eu assez de fortune pour nous éviter de nous séparer en cette façon.