And then one of those involuntary flashes which were common with him, sosudden and swift that he could neither anticipate them, nor stop them,nor qualify them, communicated, as it seemed to him, from some second,independent, and violent soul, shot through his brain. "Bah!
Puis une de ces pensées involontaires, fréquentes chez lui, si brusques,si rapides qu'il ne pouvait ni les prévoir, ni les arrêter, ni lesmodifier, venues, semblait-il, d'une seconde âme indépendante etviolente, le traversa: «Bah! il est trop niais, il épousera la petiteRosémilly.»