Dans ces moments-la, ses yeux prenaient une expression si reveuse et si vague que je l’aurais certainement soupçonné de se livrer a l’usage d’un stupéfiant quelconque, si sa sobriété exemplaire et la moralité parfaite de sa vie n’eussent protesté contre une semblable supposition.
On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.