Cependant, nous sortions du porche, nous allions passer à côté de lui, il était trop bien élevé pour détourner la tête, mais il fixa de son regard soudain chargé d’une rêverie profonde un point si éloigné de l’horizon qu’il ne put nous voir et n’eut pas à nous saluer. →
Meanwhile we were coming out through the porch; we were passing close beside him; he was too well bred to turn his head away; but he fixed his eyes, which had suddenly changed to those of a seer, lost in the profundity of his vision, on so distant a point of the horizon that he could not see us, and so had not to acknowledge our presence.