The old rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of a sudden, like a spectre, took up his wife in his arms, and descended from the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance.
Le vieux rajah n'était donc pas mort, qu'on le vît se redresser tout à coup, comme un fantôme, soulever la jeune femme dans ses bras, descendre du bûcher au milieu des tourbillons de vapeurs qui lui donnaient une apparence spectrale ?