Conseil had just made a cast of the dragnet, and his gear had come back up loaded with a variety of fairly ordinary seashells, when suddenly he saw me plunge my arms swiftly into the net, pull out a shelled animal, and give a conchological yell, in other words, the most piercing yell a human throat can produce.
Conseil venait de donner un coup de drague, et son appareil remontait chargé de diverses coquilles assez ordinaires, quand, tout d'un coup, il me vit plonger rapidement le bras dans le filet, en retirer un coquillage, et pousser un cri de conchyliologue, c'est-à-dire le cri le plus perçant que puisse produire un gosier humain.