It was an endless vista undulating beneath the slightest breeze; and he saw it spread and grow from day to day, and was sometimes surprised, as if he had found it in the evening more swollen with verdure than it had been in the morning.
C'était une mer sans fin, ondulante au moindre vent, qu'il voyait s'étaler et croître de jour en jour, surpris parfois comme s'il la trouvait le soir plus enflée de verdure que le matin.