Il lui semblait que ce n’était plus la peine de vivre pour retrouver ces mêmes bonheurs qui lui semblaient intéressants avant d’avoir connu l’amour, et quoique le suicide ne soit pas encore à la mode en Italie, il y avait songé comme à une ressource, si le destin le séparait de Clélia.
He felt that it was no longer worth his while to live to rediscover those same pleasures that had seemed to him interesting before he knew what love was, and, albeit suicide has not yet become fashionable in Italy, he had thought of it as a last resource, if fate were to part him from Clelia.