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Il avait tâché de se persuader qu’elles étaient sans cause, mais il n’avait pas pu.
He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not.
Toute la nuit, il avait tâché de les mettre au clair et de les coucher sur le papier sous une forme aussi cohérente que possible.
All night he had worked on clarifying them and laying them down on paper as coherently as possible.
Il avait tâché de se persuader qu'elles étaient sans cause, mais il n'avait pas pu.
He had been trying to fancy them causeless... but could not.
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