Translations for episode in French

Here are paragraphs from public domain books translated:

“I can well remember driving up to his house in the evening, some three weeks before the fatal event. He chanced to be at his hall door. I had descended from my gig and was standing in front of him, when I saw his eyes fix themselves over my shoulder, and stare past me with an expression of the most dreadful horror. I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive. So excited and alarmed was he that I was compelled to go down to the spot where the animal had been and look around for it. It was gone, however, and the incident appeared to make the worst impression upon his mind. I stayed with him all the evening, and it was on that occasion, to explain the emotion which he had shown, that he confided to my keeping that narrative which I read to you when first I came. I mention this small episode because it assumes some importance in view of the tragedy which followed, but I was convinced at the time that the matter was entirely trivial and that his excitement had no justification.

« Je me souviens parfaitement d’un incident qui a précédé sa mort de quelques semaines. Un soir, j’arrivai au château en voiture. Par hasard, sir Charles se trouvait sur sa porte. J’étais descendu de mon tilbury et je lui faisais face. Tout à coup ses regards passèrent par-dessus mon épaule et j’y lus aussitôt une expression de terreur. Je me retournai juste à temps pour distinguer confusément, au détour de la route, quelque chose que je pris pour un énorme veau noir. « Cette apparition émut tellement sir Charles qu’il courut à l’endroit où il avait vu l’animal et qu’il le chercha partout des yeux. Mais la bête avait disparu. Cet incident produisit une déplorable impression sur son esprit. « Je passai toute la soirée avec lui, et ce fut pour expliquer l’émotion ressentie qu’il confia à ma garde l’écrit que je vous ai lu. Ce petit épisode n’a d’importance que par la tragédie qui a suivi ; sur le moment, je n’y en attachai aucune et je jugeai puérile l’exaltation de mon ami.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle

Le Chien des Baskerville, de Arthur Conan Doyle