As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission--the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance.
De regreso a casa, juntos, yo leía perfectamente en su silencio lo que sentía hacia mí: la contrariedad de un temperamento austero y despótico que encuentra resistencia donde esperaba hallar sumisión, la desaprobación de un carácter frío e inflexible que encuentra sentimientos y puntos de vista con los que no puede simpatizar. En resumen: como hombre hubiera deseado reducirme a su obediencia, aunque como cristiano era paciente ante mi contumacia y me daba un largo plazo para reflexionar y arrepentirme.