He thought he saw a shadow behind the window in the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though no one were touching it, slowly opened its long oblique folds that spread out with a single movement, and thus hung straight and motionless as a plaster wall.
Il crut voir une ombre derrière la fenêtre, dans la chambre; mais le rideau, se décrochant de la patère comme si personne n’y touchait, remua lentement ses longs plis obliques, qui d’un seul bond s’étalèrent tous, et il resta droit, plus immobile qu’un mur de plâtre.