They would go down there; they would at last succeed in seeing his face by the gleam of incendiary fires, they would drown him in blood, that filthy swine, that monstrous idol, gorged with human flesh! He was silent, but his arm, still extended in space, indicated the enemy, down there, he knew not where, from one end of the earth to the other.
On irait la-bas, on finirait bien par lui voir la face aux clartés des incendies, on le noierait sous le sang, ce pourceau immonde, cette idole monstrueuse, gorgée de chair humaine!*p Il se tut, mais son bras, toujours tendu dans le vide, désignait l'ennemi, la-bas, il ne savait ou, d'un bout a l'autre de la terre.