Though Mr. Rivers had started at the first of those musical accents, as if a thunderbolt had split a cloud over his head, he stood yet, at the close of the sentence, in the same attitude in which the speaker had surprised him--his arm resting on the gate, his face directed towards the west.
Rivers se había estremecido al escuchar aquella voz, como si un tremendo trueno hubiese estallado sobre su cabeza, y al terminar de hablar el nuevo interlocutor, permaneció en la misma actitud en que éste le había sorprendido.