But his own teeth were chattering, a minute more and he would be swallowed up; everything was smashing up there, a flood had broken loose, a murderous rain of scaffolding.
Mais lui-meme claquait des dents, une minute de plus, et il était englouti: tout crevait la-haut, c'était un fleuve débordé, une pluie meurtriere de charpentes.