During all this time the roaring of those guns had been something dreadful to listen to, but now they suddenly died away, though it was like the lull in a thunderstorm when one feels that a worse crash is coming hard at the fringe of it.
Pendant tout ce temps, le grondement de ces canons avait été terrible à entendre, mais ils se turent soudain. Ce n'était cependant que le calme momentané au cours d'une tempête.