She spoke to him about my brother Rob's death, which I had never heard her mention to a soul before, and he looked as if the tears were in his eyes over it--he, who had just told us how he had seen three thousand men starved to death!
Elle lui raconta la mort de mon frère Rob, événement que je ne l'avais jamais entendu dire à âme qui vive -- et alors on eût cru que de Lapp allait verser des larmes à cette occasion -- lui qui venait justement de nous dire, qu'il avait vu trois mille hommes mourir de faim.