He was in a morbidly nervous state by this time, and he pictured the trial, and his trying to explain the circumstances to the jury, and nobody believing him, and his being sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude, and his mother dying of a broken heart.
Il en arriva des lors a un degré de nervosité extreme : il se vit devant le juge, s’efforçant d’expliquer son cas aux jurés, mais personne ne le croyait, et il était condamné a vingt ans de travaux forcés ; sa vieille mere en mourrait de chagrin.