They alone knew that the corpse of Camille slept between them; they alone felt, beneath the calm exterior of their faces, the nervous contractions that, at night, horribly distorted their features, and changed the placid expression of their physiognomies into hideous masks of pain.
Eux seuls savaient que le cadavre de Camille couchait entre eux; eux seuls sentaient, sous la chair calme de leur visage, les contractions nerveuses qui, la nuit, tiraient horriblement leurs traits et changeaient l'expression placide de leur physionomie en un masque ignoble et douloureux.