Two thin hands, joined under the forehead, and supporting it, drew up before the lower features a sable veil, a brow quite bloodless, white as bone, and an eye hollow and fixed, blank of meaning but for the glassiness of despair, alone were visible.
Deux mains délicates croisées au-dessous du front couvraient d'un voile noir le bas de la figure. On ne voyait qu'un front pâle, des yeux fixes, creux et désespérés.