法窓夜話

privations and disappointments with which it is but too probable we are destined to contend !’The person to whom such language as this was addressed has, therefore, as little right as she has inclination to complain of a destiny distinctly put before her and deliberately accepted. Nor has she ever been able to imagine one so consonant to her ambition, or so gratifying to her pride, as that which rendered her the sharer in his honourable poverty.”

また夫人が夫オースチンの遺書を出版するに至った次第を記した文章は、実に情義並び至っておって、一方においては婦女子の謙徳を現わし、他方においては凛乎たる貞烈の思想を示すものである。