It was with their sighs, with their mixed breaths, that the damp warmth of this room had grown heavy; the penetrating odour which had suffocated him was the odour of musk which his wife's skin exhaled, another perverse taste, a fleshly need of violent perfumes; and he seemed to feel also the heat and odour of fornication, of living adultery, in the pots which lay about, in the basins still full, in the disorder of the linen, of the furniture, of the entire room tainted with vice.
C'était de leurs soupirs, de leurs haleines confondues, dont s'alourdissait la tiédeur moite de cette chambre; l'odeur pénétrante qui l'avait suffoqué, c'était l'odeur de musc que la peau de sa femme exhalait, un autre gout pervers, un besoin charnel de parfums violents; et il retrouvait ainsi la chaleur, l'odeur de la fornication, l'adultere vivant, dans les pots qui traînaient dans les cuvettes encore pleines, dans le désordre des linges, des meubles, de la piece entiere, empestée de vice.