Perhaps he saw again in a rapid vision his mistress hanging over there at Moscow that last link cut from his flesh, which had rendered him free of the lives of others and of his own life.
Peut-etre revit-il, en une vision rapide, la-bas, a Moscou, sa maîtresse pendue, ce dernier lien de sa chair coupé, qui l'avait rendu libre de la vie des autres et de la sienne.