Sunday, February 4, 2007

la dentelle - lace

Peu à peu, en effet, cette fusillade terrible ébranlait le vieux moulin. Un volet tomba à l’eau, troué comme une dentelle, et il fallut le remplacer par un matelas. 

Little by little, in fact, that terrible fusillade was shaking the old mill apart.  A shutter fell into the water, riddled with holes like lace, and had to be replaced by a mattress.

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