Avant de repartir nous restions longtemps à manger des fruits, du pain et du chocolat, sur l’herbe où parvenaient jusqu’à nous, horizontaux, affaiblis, mais denses et métalliques encore, des sons de la cloche de Saint-Hilaire qui ne s’étaient pas mélangés à l’air qu’ils traversaient depuis si longtemps, et côtelés par la palpitation successive de toutes leurs lignes sonores, vibraient en rasant les fleurs, à nos pieds. →
Before starting homewards we would sit for a long time there, eating fruit and bread and chocolate, on the grass, over which came to our ears, horizontal, faint, but solid still and metallic, the sound of the bells of Saint-Hilaire, which had melted not at all in the atmosphere it was so well accustomed to traverse, but, broken piecemeal by the successive palpitation of all their sonorous strokes, throbbed as it brushed the flowers at our feet.