At night, when he wandered through the black country, like a wolf who has come out of his forest, he seemed to hear the crash of bankruptcies from one end of the plain to the other.
La nuit, lorsqu'il errait par la campagne noire, ainsi qu'un loup hors de son bois, il croyait entendre les effondrements des faillites, d'un bout de la plaine a l'autre.