This was cowardly: I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity at first, as I do now--opened to you plainly my life of agony--described to you my hunger and thirst after a higher and worthier existence--shown to you, not my _resolution_ (that word is weak), but my resistless _bent_ to love faithfully and well, where I am faithfully and well loved in return.
Reconozco que fui cobarde, porque debí haber apelado desde el principio a tu magnanimidad y a tu comprensión como lo hago ahora, describirte las torturas de mi vida, comunicarte, no mi resolución, porque ésta no es la palabra adecuada, sino mi inclinación a quererte fiel y honradamente, esperando ser correspondido por ti del mismo modo.