But the ideas returned one by one. The dull labour of his reasoning began again; and he soon found himself in a sort of acute reverie that displayed to him in the depths of his brain, the necessity for his marriage, along with the arguments his desire and prudence advanced in turn, for and against the possession of Therese.
Mais les idées revenaient une à une; le travail sourd de ses raisonnements recommençait; il se retrouvait dans une sorte de rêverie aiguë, qui étalait au fond de son cerveau les nécessités de son mariage, les arguments que ses désirs et sa prudence donnaient tour à tour pour et contre la possession de Thérèse.