Where was he going? Over there, perhaps, towards that vision of his youth, to the mill where he had been born on the bank of the Scarpe, to the confused recollection of the sun burning in the air like a great lamp.
Ou allait-il? la-bas peut-etre, a cette vision de sa jeunesse, au moulin ou il était né, sur le bord de la Scarpe, au souvenir confus du soleil, brulant en l'air comme une grosse lampe.