Violent as he had seemed in his despair, he, in truth, loved me far too well and too tenderly to constitute himself my tyrant: he would have given me half his fortune, without demanding so much as a kiss in return, rather than I should have flung myself friendless on the wide world.
Mi voleva tanto bene che mi avrebbe dato la metà del suo patrimonio, senza chiedermi in compenso un bacio, piuttosto che vedermi spersa per il mondo, senza amici.