The feeling was not like an electric shock, but it was quite as sharp, as strange, as startling: it acted on my senses as if their utmost activity hitherto had been but torpor, from which they were now summoned and forced to wake.
Cette sensation ne ressemblait pas à un choc électrique; mais elle était aussi aiguë, aussi étrange, aussi émouvante. On eût dit que, jusque-là, ma plus grande activité n'avait été qu'une torpeur d'où l'on me commandait de sortir.