He recalled the women and girls he had known, but try as he would he could not recall one who united in herself to such a degree all, literally all, the qualities which he, thinking the matter over in cold blood, would desire in a wife.
Pensando en cuantas mujeres conocía, no lograba recordar ninguna que reuniese aquellas cualidades que él, reflexionando fríamente, había siempre deseado para su esposa.