He told me it would be a very difficult thing for him to leave me, but since it must be, he hoped I would make it as easy to me as I could; but as for him, it would be his destruction that he foresaw.
Il me dit que ce serait une chose bien difficile pour lui que de me quitter, mais que, puisqu'il le fallait, il avait l'espoir que je lui rendrais la tâche aisée autant que possible; mais que pour lui, ce serait sa perte, et qu'il le prévoyait assez.