La Poule Noire (The Black Pullet)

-tude original: sance; completing the word reconnaissance from the previous page., through the most expressive signs; he made me understand, in the same way, that I should remain still. He gave me a new potion of those cordials cordials: medicinal tonics intended to invigorate the heart and spirit, common in 18th-century pharmacy whose happy effects I had already experienced; then he looked at me with extreme attention, and recognizing that there was nothing to fear for my life, he affectionately pressed my hand and lay down upon some cushions that were on the other side of the room where we were; and soon I heard him sleeping a sleep as deep as it was peaceful.

O beneficence original: bienfaisance; a key Enlightenment-era concept referring to active, practical charity and kindness., I said to myself, you are the virtue par excellence, and a pure emanation of the divinity; you unite, you bring humans closer together, and you make them forget the evils to which they are prey; through you, they are reborn to happiness, or rather you are that happiness, the object of all their wishes and all their desires.

My host made a movement and rose. He came to me, smiling to see me in a state of calm and tranquility that left him with no fear for my life. He made me understand that he was going to leave me to go out of the pyramid and see what was happening outside. He brought near me what he judged necessary for me, if I we- The text ends mid-word (French: si j'é-), likely continuing as "if I were to wake" or "if I experienced need."