I scrutinized Armand, for every moment I was afraid lest the emotions which he was visibly repressing should prove too much for him; but he still watched, his eyes fixed and wide open, like the eyes of a madman, and a slight trembling of the cheeks and lips were the only signs of the violent nervous crisis under which he was suffering.
J'observais Armand, car je craignais à chaque minute que ses sensations qu'il concentrait visiblement ne le brisassent; mais il regardait toujours; les yeux fixes et ouverts comme dans la folie, et un léger tremblement des joues et des lèvres prouvait seul qu'il était en proie à une violente crise nerveuse.