The duteous merciful constancy of his wife had delivered him from one dread, but it could not hinder her presence from being still a tribunal before which he shrank from confession and desired advocacy.

职责的仁慈坚定使摆脱了一种恐，但这并不能阻止她的存在仍然是一个法，在法面前不敢认罪，并希望得到辩护。