Le bon aumônier reçut ces livres et une belle lettre qui lui disait que, dans des moments d’impatience, peut-être pardonnables à un pauvre prisonnier, on avait chargé les marges de ces livres de notes ridicules.
The good chaplain received these books and a handsome letter which informed him that, in moments of impatience, pardonable perhaps to a poor prisoner, the writer had covered the margins of his books with silly notes.