The memory of her lover came back to her with dazzling attractions; she threw her whole soul into it, borne away towards this image with a fresh enthusiasm; and Charles seemed to her as much removed from her life, as absent forever, as impossible and annihilated, as if he had been about to die and were passing under her eyes.
Le souvenir de son amant revenait à elle avec des attractions vertigineuses: elle y jetait son âme, emportée vers cette image par un enthousiasme nouveau; et Charles lui semblait aussi détaché de sa vie, aussi absent pour toujours, aussi impossible et anéanti, que s’il allait mourir et qu’il eût agonisé sous ses yeux.