Thread: Missing parts in English translation of Pushkin's "The daughter of the commandant"

Originally Posted by sperk

Thoughts of him were inseparably connected in my mind with thoughts of the mercy he showed me during one of the most horrible moments of his life, and of the rescue of my fiancée from the hands of villainous Chvabrine.

You mean "What could I do?" in the beginning is not needed? Or it is OK?