The fury of impotence threw him on to the bed, which he struck with his fists, belabouring the places where he saw the imprint of their two bodies, enraged with the disordered coverlets and the crumpled sheets, soft and inert beneath his blows, as though exhausted themselves by the embraces of the whole night.
Une fureur d'impuissance le jeta sur le lit a coups de poing, et il le massacra, et il laboura les places ou il voyait l'empreinte de leurs deux corps, enragé des couvertures arrachées, des draps froissés, mous et inertes sous ses coups, comme éreintés eux-memes des amours de toute la nuit.