He had followed them purposely to town, he had taken on himself all the trouble and mortification attendant on such a research; in which supplication had been necessary to a woman whom he must abominate and despise, and where he was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to avoid, and whose very name it was punishment to him to pronounce.
Il avait couru a Londres. Il avait accepté tous les ennuis et toutes les mortifications d’une recherche ou il lui avait fallu solliciter les services d’une femme qu’il devait mépriser et abominer entre toutes, et rencontrer a plusieurs reprises, raisonner, persuader et finalement acheter un homme qu’il aurait voulu éviter a jamais, et dont il ne prononçait le nom qu’avec répugnance.