No one spoke any more; all were becoming benumbed beneath this aggravation of their evils; the grandfather, coughing and spitting out the black phlegm, taken again by rheumatism which was turning to dropsy; the father asthmatic, and with knees swollen with water; the mother and the little ones scarred by scrofula and hereditary anaemia.
Personne ne parla plus, tous s'engourdissaient sous cette aggravation de leurs maux, le grand-pere toussant, crachant noir, repris de rhumatismes qui se tournaient en hydropisie, le pere asthmatique, les genoux enflés d'eau, la mere et les petits travaillés de la scrofule et de l'anémie héréditaires.