It was clearly and unmistakably his earlier voice, but in it was intermingled, as if from below, an irrepressibly painful squeaking, which left the words positively distinct only in the first moment and distorted them in the reverberation, so that one didn't know if one had heard correctly.
Det var klart og umiskjennelig hans tidligere stemmen, men det var blandet, som om nedenfra, en irrepressibly smertefull knirkende, som forlot ordene positivt distinkte bare i første øyeblikk og forvrengt dem i etterklang, slik at man ikke visste hvis man hadde hørt riktig.QED QED