De grands obstacles, il est vrai, semblaient encore s’opposer à son bonheur ; mais enfin il avait cette joie suprême et peu espérée d’être aimé par l’être divin qui occupait toutes ses pensées.
Serious obstacles, it was true, seemed still to stand in the way of his happiness; but now at last he had that supreme and scarcely hoped-for joy of being loved by the divine creature who occupied all his thoughts.