Ravi dans une sorte de rêve, il souriait, puis il revint vers la dame en se hâtant et, comme il marchait plus vite qu’il n’en avait l’habitude, ses deux épaules oscillaient de droite et de gauche ridiculement, et il avait l’air tant il s’y abandonnait entièrement en n’ayant plus souci du reste, d’être le jouet inerte et mécanique du bonheur. →
Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster than usual, and his shoulders swayed backwards and forwards, right and left, in the most absurd fashion; altogether he looked, so utterly had he abandoned himself to it, ignoring all other considerations, as though he were the lifeless and wire-pulled puppet of his own happiness.