He burst into tears. He said that one of the tombs had a bit of stone upon the top of it that had been said by some to be probably part of the remains of the figure of a man, and that another had some words, carved upon it, that nobody had ever been able to decipher.
Il fondit en larmes et m’assura entre deux sanglots qu’on voyait, sur l’une des tombes, un fragment de pierre qui faisait sans doute partie, pensait-on, des restes d’une statue d’homme, que sur une autre étaient gravés des mots que personne encore n’avait été capable de déchiffrer.