Translations for doom in French

Here are paragraphs from public domain books translated:

“It only remains to indicate the part which she had played throughout. There can be no doubt that Stapleton exercised an influence over her which may have been love or may have been fear, or very possibly both, since they are by no means incompatible emotions. It was, at least, absolutely effective. At his command she consented to pass as his sister, though he found the limits of his power over her when he endeavoured to make her the direct accessory to murder. She was ready to warn Sir Henry so far as she could without implicating her husband, and again and again she tried to do so. Stapleton himself seems to have been capable of jealousy, and when he saw the baronet paying court to the lady, even though it was part of his own plan, still he could not help interrupting with a passionate outburst which revealed the fiery soul which his self-contained manner so cleverly concealed. By encouraging the intimacy he made it certain that Sir Henry would frequently come to Merripit House, and that he would sooner or later get the opportunity which he desired. On the day of the crisis, however, his wife turned suddenly against him. She had learned something of the death of the convict, and she knew that the hound was being kept in the outhouse on the evening that Sir Henry was coming to dinner. She taxed her husband with his intended crime, and a furious scene followed, in which he showed her for the first time that she had a rival in his love. Her fidelity turned in an instant to bitter hatred, and he saw that she would betray him. He tied her up, therefore, that she might have no chance of warning Sir Henry, and he hoped, no doubt, that when the whole countryside put down the baronet’s death to the curse of his family, as they certainly would do, he could win his wife back to accept an accomplished fact, and to keep silent upon what she knew. In this I fancy that in any case he made a miscalculation, and that, if we had not been there, his doom would none the less have been sealed. A woman of Spanish blood does not condone such an injury so lightly. And now, my dear Watson, without referring to my notes, I cannot give you a more detailed account of this curious case. I do not know that anything essential has been left unexplained.”

« Quel rôle a joué Mme Stapleton ? Il est incontestable que, soit par l’amour, soit par la crainte — peut-être par ces deux sentiments — son mari exerçait sur elle une réelle influence. Sur son ordre, elle consentit à passer pour sa sœur ; mais toutefois cette influence cessa, dès qu’il essaya de la convertir en un instrument de meurtre. Elle avait tenté d’avertir sir Henry autant qu’elle pouvait le faire sans compromettre son mari. « De son côté, Stapleton connut les tortures de la jalousie. Quand il vit le baronnet courtiser sa femme — quoique cela rentrât dans ses plans — il ne sut pas maîtriser un accès de colère ; ce fut une faute grave, qui dévoila toute la violence de son caractère, si habilement dissimulée jusqu’alors sous ses manières froides et compassées. En encourageant l’intimité des deux jeunes gens, il provoquait les fréquentes visites de sir Henry à Merripit house et préparait pour une heure quelconque l’opportunité qu’il désirait. « Le jour de la crise, sa femme se retourna subitement contre lui. On avait vaguement parlé de la mort de Selden et Mme Stapleton avait découvert, dans le pavillon du verger, la présence du chien, ce même soir où sir Henry venait dîner chez eux. « Elle accusa son mari de préméditer un crime. Une scène furieuse éclata, au cours de laquelle le naturaliste lui laissa entrevoir qu’elle avait une rivale. Sa fidélité se changea aussitôt en une haine féroce. Il comprit qu’elle le trahirait. Pour lui ôter toute possibilité de communiquer avec sir Henry, il l’enferma. Il espérait sans doute — ce qui se serait certainement produit — que toute la contrée mettrait la mort du baronnet sur le compte du maléfice héréditaire, et qu’il amènerait sa femme à accepter le fait accompli et à se taire. « En tout cas, j’estime qu’il se trompait et que, même sans notre intervention, son arrêt était irrévocablement prononcé. Une femme d’origine espagnole ne pardonne pas aussi facilement un semblable affront. « Maintenant, mon cher Watson, je ne pourrais, sans recourir à mes notes, vous fournir plus de détails sur cette curieuse affaire. Je ne crois pas avoir rien oublié d’essentiel.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

Le Chien des Baskerville, de Arthur Conan Doyle