It was, as a matter of fact, a pair of mirrors, each of them eight feet high, in which he caught sight now and then of his challenger as he spoke of Horace, that still continued to overawe him.
C’était, dans le fait, deux glaces de huit pieds de haut chacune, et dans lesquelles il regardait quelquefois son interlocuteur en parlant d’Horace, qui lui imposait encore.