When I looked at this splendid fellow, with his high-bred, clean-cut face, and thought of the fine qualities and gentle, generous impulses which I knew to lie within him, it seemed so absurd that he should speak as though my friendship towards him were a condescension, that I could not help laughing aloud.
En contemplant ce superbe gaillard à la figure distinguée, aux traits fins, en pensant à ses belles qualités, aux impulsions généreuses dont je le savais capable, je trouvai si absurde qu'il regardât mon amitié comme une marque de condescendance, que je ne pus retenir un bruyant éclat de rire.