These reflections oppressed me for the second or third day of my distemper; and in the violence, as well of the fever as of the dreadful reproaches of my conscience, extorted some words from me like praying to God, though I cannot say they were either a prayer attended with desires or with hopes: it was rather the voice of mere fright and distress.
Estos pensamientos me atormentaron durante el segundo y el tercer día de mi enfermedad, y en el furor de la fiebre y las terribles recriminaciones de mi conciencia, musité unas palabras que parecían una plegaria a Dios, aunque no sé si el origen de la oración era la necesidad o la esperanza.