He told me, that however he was disappointed in his expectations of a fortune, he was not disappointed in a wife, and that I was all to him that a wife could be, and he was more than satisfied on the whole when the particulars were put together, but that this offer was so kind, that it was more than he could express.
Il me dit que, bien qu'il eût été désappointé par ses espérances de fortune, il n'avait pas été désappointé par sa femme, et que j'étais pour lui tout ce que peut être une femme, mais que cette offre était plus charmante qu'il n'était capable d'exprimer.