From time to time Rieux would take his pulse (unnecessarily and rather to escape from the state of powerless inactivity in which he found himself); and when he closed his eyes he could feel this agitation mingled with the throbbing in his own veins.
Rieuxek, noizean behin pultsua hartzen ziolarik, eta ez beharragatik hala ere, baizik eta ezintasunak eragindako egonkortasunetik irtetearren, sumatzen zuen, begiak ixterakoan, nola nahasten zitzaion asaldura hura bere odolaren burrundararekin.