I lived with that woman upstairs four years, and before that time she had tried me indeed: her character ripened and developed with frightful rapidity; her vices sprang up fast and rank: they were so strong, only cruelty could check them, and I would not use cruelty.
Viví con esa mujer más de cuatro años y en tal lapso su perverso carácter y sus malas inclinaciones se desarrollaron con increíble rapidez.