Here ensued a pause, filled up by the producing and lighting of a cigar; having placed it to his lips and breathed a trail of Havannah incense on the freezing and sunless air, he went on--
Il fit une pause, tira un cigare de sa poche, l'alluma, le plaça entre ses lèvres, jeta une bouffée d'encens havanais dans l'air glacé, et reprit: