As I looked at his lofty forehead, still and pale as a white stone--at his fine lineaments fixed in study--I comprehended all at once that he would hardly make a good husband: that it would be a trying thing to be his wife.
En contemplant son front élevé, calme et pâle comme la pierre, sa belle figure absorbée par l'étude, je compris qu'il ne pourrait pas faire un bon mari, qu'être sa femme serait une grande épreuve.