certitude

2. Witnessing certitude.

2. Témoigner la certitude.

(b) 'Degrés de certitude '

b) Le système des «degrés de certitude»

Ses craintes se changerent alors en certitude, il bondit en avant ; mais il ne vit rien, rien en dehors des cendres encore brulantes. Le pere, la fille, les animaux eux-memes, tout avait disparu.

With his fears all changed to convictions, he hurried on. There was no living creature near the remains of the fire: animals, man, maiden, all were gone.

Devant la certitude de son malheur, devant sa propre impuissance, le jeune homme se prit a regretter amerement de ne pas partager la derniere demeure du vieux fermier, la demeure ou l’on trouve enfin le repos supreme.

As the young fellow realized the certainty of her fate, and his own powerlessness to prevent it, he wished that he, too, was lying with the old farmer in his last silent resting-place.