And, as it happened, Doctor Bonamy was just then examining Elise Rouquet, who, for the third time, had come to have the increasing cicatrisation of her sore certified.

Et, justement, le docteur Bonamy était en train d’examiner le lupus d’Élise Rouquet, qui, pour la troisième fois, venait faire constater la cicatrisation croissante de sa plaie.

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And again did Pierre feel astonished at sight of that sore, which was certainly healing, if not already healed--that face, so lately a monster's face, which one could now look at without feeling horrified.

Et, de nouveau, Pierre s’étonnait de cette plaie en voie de guérison, sinon guérie, de ce visage de monstre qu’on pouvait maintenant regarder sans horreur.

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For the moment, however, Elise Rouquet's case interested him still more; for it had now become evident that the lupus, the sore which was eating away her face, was showing signs of cure.

Mais, à cette minute, le cas d’Élise Rouquet le frappa davantage encore ; car il devenait certain maintenant que le lupus, dont la plaie lui mangeait la face, s’était amendé.

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And the sight of her filled him with pity; he could feel for the forlornness of this solitary woman, who had no physical sore to heal, but only implored the Blessed Virgin to relieve her heart-pain by converting her inconstant husband.

Et elle l’apitoya, il sentit son abandon, à cette solitaire, qui n’avait pas de plaie physique à guérir, qui demandait seulement à la Sainte Vierge de soulager le mal de son cœur, en convertissant son mari infidèle.

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While we were playing in Canada I got sore at Sharp.

Durant notre séjour au Canada, je me suis disputée avec lui.

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Lady sings the blues

Holiday, Billie,Dufty, William

© 1956, by Eleonora Fagan and William F. Dufty.

She related that she had been bathing it with her handkerchief ever since the morning, and it seemed to her that her sore, previously so fresh and raw, was already beginning to dry and grow paler in colour.

Depuis le matin, elle se lotionnait avec des linges, à la fontaine, et il lui semblait bien, disait-elle, que sa plaie, si avivée, commentait à sécher et à pâlir.

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There was, however, a secret sore in the depths of his happiness.

Une seule plaie secrète saignait au fond de cette joie.

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And as four o'clock was now striking, Pierre with his heart sore went off to the Verification Office, having suddenly remembered the appointment given him by Doctor Chassaigne.

Et, comme quatre heures sonnaient, Pierre, le cœur meurtri, s’en alla au bureau des constatations, en se rappelant le rendez-vous que lui avait donné le docteur Chassaigne.

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There was here an envenomed, bleeding sore, ever spreading, a cancer eating into father, mother, daughter and son, who one and all had thrown social bonds aside.

Ce n’était qu’une plaie sans cesse accrue, envenimée et saignante, tout un mal rongeur, dévorant le père, la mère, la fille, le fils, déliés du lien social.

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And the dim consciousness that Silviane was the avenging sore, the cancer preying on him who preyed on others, completed his exasperation.

Et la sourde conscience que Silviane était sa tare vengeresse, sa pourriture, à lui le pourrisseur, achevait de l’exaspérer.

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"Ah! brother, if you have your dream, I have my sore which has eaten into me and left me void!

« Ah ! frère si tu as ton rêve, moi j’ai ma plaie au flanc, qui m’a rongé et m’a laissé vide...

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Therein lay the bare, bleeding sore.

Là saignait la plaie vive.

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If men cannot agree about a visible sore, they surely cannot do so about an internal lesion the existence of which will be admitted by some, and denied by others.

Si l’on ne s’entend pas sur une plaie apparente, ce n’est pas pour s’entendre sur une lésion intérieure que les uns nient, quand les autres l’affirment.

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That woman was this sturdy, powerful man's taint, the secret sore which would perhaps end by eating him away and destroying him.

Cette fille était sa tare, à lui, si solide, si puissant, le mal secret qui finirait peut-être par le ronger et le détruire.

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Overpowered for a moment, the bearers had to throw themselves backward with sore hands; however, they ended by somewhat enlarging the reserved path, along which the procession was then able to slowly wend its way.

Ceux-ci, débordés un instant, durent se rejeter en arrière, les poings meurtris ; et ils finirent par élargir un peu le passage réservé, où la procession put dès lors s’engager lentement.

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