That was as far as Father Quandieu's intelligence went, stiffened by his obstinacy of military duty, his narrow skull, and eyes dimmed by the black melancholy of half a century spent underground.
Et son intelligence n'allait pas plus loin, au pere Quandieu, raidi dans son entetement du devoir militaire, le crâne étroit, l'oeil éteint par la tristesse noire d'un demi-siecle de fond.