I believe it was a lovely summer morning: I know my shoes, which I had put on when I left the house, were soon wet with dew. But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.
Mes souliers, que j'avais mis en quittant la maison, furent bientôt mouillés par la rosée; mais je ne regardais ni le soleil levant, ni les cieux qui souriaient, ni la nature qui s'éveillait.