His real life was spent in a world so remote from this familiar setting that he sometimes had the mysterious sense of a living metempsychosis, a furtive passage from one identity to another — yet the other as unescapably himself!

他的真实生活是在一个与这个熟悉的环境如此遥远的世界中度过的，以至于他有时会有一种活生生的轮回的神秘感觉，一种从一种身份到另一种身份的偷偷摸摸的过渡——而另一种身份又不可避免地成为他自己！

A mere beast of the chase flying from hunters, he was still in his metempsychosis no other than the same Monseigneur, the preparation of whose chocolate for whose lips had once occupied three strong men besides the cook in question.

他只是一头从猎人手中逃走的野兽，仍然处于轮回之中，只不过是同一个大人，除了这位厨师之外，他的巧克力的准备工作曾经占用了三个强壮的男人。