Aber seine Anstrengungen waren vergeblich; sein Gedächtnisfaden und sein Gedankengang waren unterbrochen; und zweifelnd an allem, ungewiß in dem, was er sah und hörte, legte er sich die unlösliche Frage vor:
But his efforts were vain; the thread of his memory and of his thought was broken; and, doubting everything, wavering between what he saw and what he felt, he put to himself this unanswerable question,−−