Willingly would I now have gone and asked Mrs. Reed's pardon; but I knew, partly from experience and partly from instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with double scorn, thereby re-exciting every turbulent impulse of my nature.
Alors je serais allée de bon coeur demander pardon à Mme Reed; mais je savais par l'expérience et par l'instinct que je l'aurais ainsi rendue plus ennemie et que j'aurais excité les violents entraînements de ma nature.