La figure de Legrandin exprimait une animation, un zèle extraordinaires; il fit un profond salut avec un renversement secondaire en arrière, qui ramena brusquement son dos au delà de la position de départ et qu’avait dû lui apprendre le mari de sa sœur, Mme de Cambremer. →
Legrandin's face shewed an extraordinary zeal and animation; he made a profound bow, with a subsidiary backward movement which brought his spine sharply up into a position behind its starting-point, a gesture in which he must have been trained by the husband of his sister, Mme. de Cambremer.