He preserved his monotonous voice, as if to insist on the bad news; he said that hunger was victorious, that hope was dead, and that the struggle had reached the last feverish efforts of courage.
Il gardait sa voix monotone comme pour insister sur ces mauvaises nouvelles, il disait la faim victorieuse, l'espoir mort, la lutte arrivée aux fievres dernieres du courage.