Mais sa face amaigrie, ses vetements trop larges qui flottaient sur des membres décharnés, indiquaient trop clairement la cause de cette apparence misérable : cet homme se mourait de faim et de soif.
His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance. The man was dying—dying from hunger and from thirst.