When this had agitated my thoughts for two hours or more, with such violence that it set my very blood into a ferment, and my pulse beat as if I had been in a fever, merely with the extraordinary fervour of my mind about it, Nature—as if I had been fatigued and exhausted with the very thoughts of it—threw me into a sound sleep.
Durante más de dos horas este deseo me invadió con tanta fuerza que me bullía la sangre y me alteraba el pulso como si el mero fervor de mis pensamientos me hubiese provocado fiebre. Entonces la naturaleza, como agotada y extenuada por mi obsesión, me arrojó en un profundo sueño.