-Alors ce n'est pas par hasard que, le matin où je t'ai connu, il y a huit jours, tu te promenais comme ça, tout seul, à mille milles de toutes régions habitées!
however, occurred to me: “Then it was not by chance that on the morning when I first met you — a week ago — you were strolling along like that, all alone, a thousand miles from any inhabited region?