That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius.

It was a "painful affair", cut short by a principal who realised that the visitor from America did not have permission from Jael to visit the "handsome round-headed boy with a wary gaze".

It is the life blood of your brother, yes, it is your own blood, but your gaze remains luminous and embraces the entire horror and the earth's round.