Il voulait correspondre avec elle au moyen de caractères qu’il traçait sur sa main avec un morceau de charbon dont il avait fait la précieuse découverte dans son poêle ; il aurait formé les mots lettre à lettre, successivement.
He sought to correspond with her by means of letters which he traced on his hand with a piece of charcoal of which he had made the precious discovery in his stove; he would have formed the words letter by letter, in succession.