It was a long while before I could get Harris to take a more Christian view of the subject, but I succeeded at last, and he promised me that he would spare the friends and relations at all events, and would not sing comic songs on the ruins.
Ci volle molto perchè io potessi persuadere Harris a considerar l’argomento in una luce più cristiana, ma ci riuscii finalmente, ed egli mi promise che a ogni modo avrebbe risparmiato la vita agli amici e ai parenti, e non avrebbe cantato delle canzoni allegre sulle macerie.