Here I heard myself apostrophised as a " hard little thing;" and it was added, " any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise" .

在这里，我听到自己被贬为“顽固的小东西”；并补充说，“任何其他女人听到这样赞美她的诗句都会被融化成骨髓”。