Qué fue atrapado en las trampas que se tendieron

Cómo había sido atormentado y desgarrado el espíritu de Bradley Headstone desde aquella tarde tranquila en que, junto a la orilla del río, había surgido, por decirlo así, de las cenizas del barquero, nadie sino él habría podido decirlo. Ni siquiera él lo habría podido decir, porque semejante miseria solo puede sentirse.

First, he had to bear the combined weight of the knowledge of what he had done, of that haunting reproach that he might have done it so much better, and of the dread of discovery.

This was load enough to crush him, and he laboured under it day and night. It was as heavy on him in his scanty sleep, as in his red-eyed waking hours. It bore him down with a dread unchanging monotony, in which there was not a moment’s variety.

The overweighted beast of burden, or the overweighted slave, can for certain instants shift the physical load, and find some slight respite even in enforcing additional pain upon such a set of muscles or such a limb. Not even that poor mockery of relief could the wretched man obtain, under the steady pressure of the infernal atmosphere into which he had entered.

El tiempo pasó, y ninguna sospecha visible lo acosaba; el tiempo pasó, y en los informes públicos del atentado que se renovaban a intervalos, empezó a ver al señor Lightwood (que actuaba como abogado del