He sat looking at them as he had looked at his mother in the morningbefore starting for Trouville; looking at them as a stranger who wouldstudy them, and he felt as though he had really suddenly come into afamily of which he knew nothing.
Il les regardait comme il avait regardé sa mère, le matin, avant departir pour Trouville; il les regardait en étranger qui observe, et ilse croyait en effet entré tout à coup dans une famille inconnue.