When Michaud saw him enter, clothed in coarse-looking garments that were too tight for him, he questioned him with his eyes, and Laurent gave an account of the accident in a broken voice, as if exhausted with grief and fatigue.
Lorsque Michel le vit entrer vêtu de vêtements grossiers, trop étroits pour lui, il le questionna du regard. Laurent fit le récit de l'accident, d'une voix brisée, comme tout essoufflé de douleur et de fatigue.