While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression, I had burnt it in.

在热切地希望从他的脑海中抹去我以前的罪行的痕迹时，我在那个顽固的表面上留下了另一个更深刻的印象，我把它烧了。