He came and he went; he seized his head between both his hands; he pushed the chairs out of their places, he piled up his books; incredible as it may seem, he rattled his precious nodules of flints together; he sent a kick here, a thump there.
Il allait et venait; il prenait sa tête à deux mains; il déplaçait les siéges; il empilait ses livres; il jonglait, c'est à ne pas le croire, avec ses précieuses géodes; il lançait un coup de poing par-ci, une tape par-là.