"While something in me," he went on, "is acutely sensible to her charms, something else is as deeply impressed with her defects: they are such that she could sympathise in nothing I aspired to--co-operate in nothing I undertook.
-Hay algo en mí -dijo Rivers- inmensamente sensible a sus encantos y otra parte que nota fuertemente sus defectos. Sé que ella no compartiría ninguna de mis aspiraciones ni colaboraría en ninguna de mis iniciativas.