Here he interrupted himself abruptly, bit his lips as though to take back his thought which had already half escaped, bent his piercing eyes in turn on each of the five persons who surrounded him, and suddenly grasping his hat with both hands and staring full at it, he said to it: "Oh! I would burn you if you knew what there was in my head."
Ici il s’interrompit brusquement, se mordit la lèvre, comme pour rattraper sa pensée à demi échappée, appuya tour à tour son œil perçant sur chacun des cinq personnages qui l’entouraient, et tout à coup saisissant son chapeau à deux mains et le regardant en face, il lui dit : « Oh ! je te brûlerais si tu savais ce qu’il y a dans ma tête ! »