He was lying on the broad of his back, his face turned up towards the sky, and all the passion and the trouble seemed to have passed clean away from him, so that he looked just like the old Jim as I had seen him in his cot a hundred times when we were schoolmates together.
On eut dit que toute passion, toute souffrance s'étaient évaporées. Il ressemblait tout à fait à ce Jim d'autrefois, que j'avais vu cent fois dans sa couchette, quand nous étions camarades d'école.