When he had placed her on his knees, he sheltered her with both hands, and fell into that kind of dreamy somnolence into which the caress of this soft warm fur always plunged him.
Quand il l'eut couchée sur ses genoux, il l'abrita de ses deux mains, il tomba dans cette sorte de somnolence reveuse, ou le plongeait la caresse de ce poil doux et tiede.