Die Augen begannen zu rollen und ihr Licht zu verlieren wie zwei Lampenglocken, hinter denen die Flammen verlöschen. Man hätte glauben können, sie sei schon tot, wenn ihre Atmungsorgane nicht so fürchterlich heftig gearbeitet hätten.
Her chest soon began panting rapidly; the whole of her tongue protruded from her mouth; her eyes, as they rolled, grew paler, like the two globes of a lamp that is going out, so that one might have thought her already dead but for the fearful labouring of her ribs, shaken by violent breathing, as if the soul were struggling to free itself.