There only remained, unceasingly, the escapement of the pump, always breathing with the same thick, long breath, the ogre's breath of which he could now see the grey steam, and which nothing could satiate.
Il ne restait la, sans un arret, que l'échappement de la pompe, soufflant toujours de la meme haleine grosse et longue, l'haleine d'un ogre dont il distinguait la buée grise maintenant, et que rien ne pouvait repaître.