Perhaps he vaguely saw again, in the depths of his obscure dreams, the mill at which he was born, near Marchiennes, a mill placed on the edge of the Scarpe, surrounded by large fields over which the wind always blew.
Peut-etre revoyait-il vaguement, au fond de ses revasseries obscures, le moulin ou il était né, pres de Marchiennes, un moulin planté sur le bord de la Scarpe, entouré de larges verdures, toujours éventé par le vent.