Instead of that gaze charged with passion which he expected to meet, he found the stern face of M. de Renal, who, having arrived a couple of hours earlier from Verrieres, did not conceal his displeasure on finding that Julien was wasting the whole morning without attending to the children.
Au lieu de ces regards chargés de volupté qu’il s’attendait à rencontrer, il trouva la figure sévère de M. de Rênal, qui, arrivé depuis deux heures de Verrières, ne cachait point son mécontentement de ce que Julien passait toute la matinée sans s’occuper des enfants.