The priest gazed at her with the eye of a hawk which has long been soaring in a circle from the heights of heaven over a poor lark cowering in the wheat, and has long been silently contracting the formidable circles of his flight, and has suddenly swooped down upon his prey like a flash of lightning, and holds it panting in his talons.
Le prêtre la regardait de l’œil d’un milan qui a longtemps plané en rond du plus haut du ciel autour d’une pauvre alouette tapie dans les blés, qui a longtemps rétréci en silence les cercles formidables de son vol, et tout à coup s’est abattu sur sa proie comme la flèche de l’éclair, et la tient pantelante dans sa griffe.