In the place of the gypsy, on the carpet, whose arabesques had seemed to vanish but a moment previously by the capricious figures of her dance, the archdeacon no longer beheld any one but the red and yellow man, who, in order to earn a few testers in his turn, was walking round the circle, with his elbows on his hips, his head thrown back, his face red, his neck outstretched, with a chair between his teeth.
À la place de l’égyptienne, sur ce même tapis dont les arabesques s’effaçaient le moment d’auparavant sous le dessin capricieux de sa danse, l’archidiacre ne vit plus que l’homme rouge et jaune, qui, pour gagner à son tour quelques testons, se promenait autour du cercle, les coudes sur les hanches, la tête renversée, la face rouge, le cou tendu, avec une chaise entre les dents.