Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;--I pronounced judgment to this effect:--
Repasé mentalmente las esperanzas y deseos a que me entregara desde la noche anterior -y que en realidad había comenzado a experimentar hacía quince días- y, apelando a la razón para reducir el ideal a la realidad, llegué a la conclusión siguiente: