I said to myself that if, in such a position as I was now in, I was fool enough to cling to one glimpse of hope, it would be madness, and that the best thing I could do was to despair.
Pensé que si, en mi situación, aún conservaba una sombra de esperanza, sería signo evidente de locura, y que era preferible, por tanto, desesperar del todo.