Comfortably ensconced in an armchair which he had made them push up close to the fire, the Neapolitan was groaning aloud and talking more, by himself, than the score of German peasants who were gathered round him open-mouthed.
Établi dans un fauteuil qu’il avait fait apporter près du feu, le Napolitain gémissait tout haut et parlait plus, à lui tout seul, que les vingt paysans allemands qui l’entouraient ébahis.