I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.
Je ne sais si je m'endormis ou non; mais tout à coup j'entendis au-dessus de ma tête un murmure vague, étrange et lugubre qui me fit tressaillir.