We fell upon his neck there in the moonlight and blessed him, and it would have made a very beautiful picture if the boy himself had not been so over-powered by our emotion as to be unable to sustain himself under it, and sunk to the ground, letting us all down on top of him.
Nous lui sautâmes au cou, en le bénissant. Ce qui eut fait un tres beau tableau au clair de lune, si le gamin ne s’était écroulé sous le poids de notre émotion, et nous trois avec lui, ou plutôt sur lui.