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tout à coup, au-dessus de la tête de phœbus, elle vit une autre tête, une figure livide, verte, convulsive, avec un regard de damné. près de cette figure il y avait une main qui tenait un poignard.
all at once, above phoebus's head she beheld another head; a green, livid, convulsed face, with the look of a lost soul; near this face was a hand grasping a poniard.−−it was the face and hand of the priest; he had broken the door and he was there.