Still, society associated my name and person with hers; I yet saw her and heard her daily: something of her breath (faugh!) mixed with the air I breathed; and besides, I remembered I had once been her husband--that recollection was then, and is now, inexpressibly odious to me; moreover, I knew that while she lived I could never be the husband of another and better wife; and, though five years my senior (her family and her father had lied to me even in the particular of her age), she was likely to live as long as I, being as robust in frame as she was infirm in mind.
"Allora come ora quel ricordo mi è orribilmente odioso; sapevo che finché ella viveva, non potevo sposare nessuna donna migliore di lei. "Benché avesse cinque anni più di me — la sua famiglia e mio padre mi avevano ingannato anche su questo punto — era probabile che sarebbe vissuta quanto me, perché era tanto forte di corpo quanto malata di mente.