Aber in seiner heimlichen Sehnsucht war er kühner; da war er empört über seine tatsächliche eigne Feigheit. Und in naivem Machiavellismus sagte er sich, gerade ob dieses Verbots habe er ein Recht auf seine Liebe.
He obeyed then, but the strength of his desire protested against the servility of his conduct; and he thought, with a kind of naive hypocrisy, that his interdict to see her gave him a sort of right to love her.