Only one thing, I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be, and that you regretted your own imperfection;--one thing I can comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane.
Sólo creo entender una cosa: que no es usted tan bueno como quisiera, y que lamenta su imperfección. Antes me hablaba usted de memoria.