In short, my dear aunt, I should be very sorry to be the means of making any of you unhappy; but since we see every day that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from entering into engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even to know that it would be wisdom to resist?
Wickham. En résumé, ma chere tante, je serais désolée de vous faire de la peine, mais puisque nous voyons tous les jours que les jeunes gens qui s’aiment se laissent rarement arreter par le manque de fortune, comment pourrais-je m’engager a me montrer plus forte que tant d’autres en cas de tentation ?