The cloud was within fifty yards of where we lay, and we glared at it, all three, uncertain what horror was about to break from the heart of it. I was at Holmes's elbow, and I glanced for an instant at his face.
Le nuage se trouvait à une cinquantaine de mètres de l’endroit où nous étions retranchés ; tous les trois nous le fixions désespérément, nous demandant quelle horreur allait en surgir.