"I will not ask your opinion of it as a composition," said Edward.--"For worlds would not I have had a letter of hers seen by YOU in former days.--In a sister it is bad enough, but in a wife!--how I have blushed over the pages of her writing!--and I believe I may say that since the first half year of our foolish--business--this is the only letter I ever received from her, of which the substance made me any amends for the defect of the style."
¡Cómo me han hecho sonrojar algunas de sus páginas! Y creo poder decir que desde los primeros seis meses de nuestro descabellado... asunto, ésta es la única carta que he recibido de ella en que el contenido compensó las faltas en el estilo.