They both tried in after life to efface from their memories all the ugly shameful circumstances of this unhealthy time during which they were rarely in a normal state and rarely themselves.
Los dos procuraron tachar, en su existencia futura, todas las líneas grotescas y vergonzosas de aquellos primeros tiempos, en que ambos, pocas veces en un estado de espíritu tranquilo, no se mostraban casi nunca tal como eran.