I was now confounded, and driven to such an extremity as the like was never known; at least not to me. I resisted the proposal with obstinacy; and now I began to arm myself with arguments. I laid before him the inequality of the match; the treatment I should meet with in the family; the ingratitude it would be to his good father and mother, who had taken me into their house upon such generous principles, and when I was in such a low condition; and, in short, I said everything to dissuade him from his design that I could imagine, except telling him the truth, which would indeed have put an end to it all, but that I durst not think of mentioning.
J'étais maintenant confondue, et poussée à une telle extrémité que je n'en avais jamais connu de semblable, je résistai obstinément à sa proposition et commençai de m'armer d'arguments: je lui exposai l'inégalité de cette alliance, le traitement que je rencontrerais dans sa famille, l'ingratitude que ce serait envers son bon père et sa mère qui m'avaient recueillie dans leur maison avec de si généreuses intentions et lorsque je me trouvais dans une condition si basse; et bref je dis, pour le dissuader, tout ce que je pus imaginer, excepté la vérité, ce qui aurait mis fin à tout, mais dont je n'osais même penser faire mention.