It was certainly lucky, that at the moment they were about to set out to do so, the apes had been seized with that terror, no less sudden than inexplicable, which had driven them out of Granite House.
Il était heureux, en vérité, qu'au moment où ils se disposaient à le faire, la bande de singes eût été prise d'une terreur, non moins subite qu'inexplicable, qui les avait chassés de Granite-House.