He could not at all reconcile his recent forgiveness, his emotion and love for his sick wife and for another man's baby, with the present position: with the fact that, as if in reward for all that, he was now left alone, disgraced, ridiculed, not wanted by anyone and despised by all.
Le era imposible de todo punto, ahora, relacionar su reciente perdón, su ternura, su amor a la esposa enferma y a la niña de otro, con lo que al presente sucedía, en que, como recompensa a todo ello, se veía solo, cubierto de oprobio, deshonrado, inútil para todo y objeto del desprecio general.