It really appeared as if it formed the central point of vast cyclones, which beat it perpetually as the whip does the top, only here it was the top which was motionless and the whip which moved.
Il semblait vraiment qu'elle formât le point central de vastes cyclones, qui la fouettaient comme fait le fouet de la toupie. Seulement, ici, c'était la toupie qui était immobile, et le fouet qui tournait.