Jean, with wide-open, glittering eyes, laid his hand on his handsomefair beard, a familiar gesture with him, and drew his fingers down itto the tip of the last hairs, as if to pull it longer and thinner.
Jean, les yeux grands ouverts et brillants, prenait d'un geste familiersa belle barbe blonde dans sa main droite, et l'y faisait glisser,jusqu'aux derniers poils, comme pour l'allonger et l'amincir.