When he recovered his senses, he threw himself on the bed and rolling about, he kissed frantically the place where the young girl had slept and which was still warm; he remained there for several moments asmotionless as though he were about to expire; then he rose, dripping with perspiration, panting, mad, and began to beat his head against the wall with the frightful regularity of the clapper of his bells, and the resolution of a man determined to kill himself.
Quand il revint à lui, il se jeta sur le lit, il s’y roula, il baisa avec frénésie la place tiède encore où la jeune fille avait dormi, il y resta quelques minutes immobile comme s’il allait y expirer, puis il se releva, ruisselant de sueur, haletant, insensé, et se mit à cogner les murailles de sa tête avec l’effrayante régularité du battant de ses cloches, et la résolution d’un homme qui veut l’y briser.