All at once he started. His eyes became fixed upon a point of the sea, commanded by the terrace where he was. With the eagle glance of a sailor he had recognized there, where another would have seen only a gull hovering over the waves, the sail of a sloop which was directed toward the cost of France.
Hirtelen megborzongott; az erkélyről széltében-hosszában belátta a tengert, és pillantása most megakadt valamin: ahol mindenki más csak hullámokon ringó sirályt sejtett volna, sasszeme felismerte a Franciaország partjai felé haladó sloop vitorláit.