But his efforts were vain; the thread of his memory and of his thought was broken; and, doubting everything, wavering between what he saw and what he felt, he put to himself this unanswerable question,−−
Mais ses efforts étaient vains ; le fil de sa mémoire et de sa pensée était rompu ; et doutant de tout, flottant de ce qu’il voyait à ce qu’il sentait, il se posait cette insoluble question :