It was like a divinity of their own, whom their egoism surrounded with a kind of worship, the benefactor of the hearth, lulling them in their great bed of idleness, fattening them at their gluttonous table.
C'était comme une divinité a eux, que leur égoisme entourait d'un culte, la bienfaitrice du foyer, les berçant dans leur grand lit de paresse, les engraissant a leur table gourmande.