He began seriously to take himself for a personage in a fairy tale; he cast his eyes about him from time to time to time, as though to see if the chariot of fire, harnessed to two−winged chimeras, which alone could have so rapidly transported him from Tartarus to Paradise, were still there.
Il commençait à se prendre sérieusement pour un personnage de conte de fées ; de temps en temps il jetait les yeux autour de lui comme pour chercher si le char de feu attelé de deux chimères ailées, qui avait seul pu le transporter si rapidement du tartare au paradis, était encore là.