This time Felton, immovable as he was, or appeared to be, could not resist the secret influence which had already taken possession of him. To see this woman, so beautiful, fair as the brightest vision, to see her by turns overcome with grief and threatening; to resist at once the ascendancy of grief and beauty--it was too much for a visionary; it was too much for a brain weakened by the ardent dreams of an ecstatic faith; it was too much for a heart furrowed by the love of heaven that burns, by the hatred of men that devours. Milady saw the trouble.
Esta vez Felton, por más impasible que fuera o que fingiera ser, no pudo resistir a la influencia secreta que ya se había apoderado de él: ver a aquella mujer tan hermosa, blanca como la más cándida visión, verla alternativamente desconsolada y amenazadora, sufrir a la vez el ascendiente del dolor y de la belleza, era demasiado para un visionario, era demasiado para un cerebro minado por los sueños ardientes de la fe extática, era demasiado para un corazón corroído a la vez por el amor del cielo que abrasa, por el odio de los hombres que devora.