After so many hours of vacillation, this method of obtaining enlightenment seemed to him decidedly the best, and he was thinking of adopting it, when at a bend in the path he came upon that wife whom he would have liked to see dead.
Après tant d’heures d’incertitudes, ce moyen d’éclaircir son sort lui semblait décidément le meilleur, et il songeait à s’en servir, lorsqu’au détour d’une allée il rencontra cette femme qu’il eût voulu voir morte.