And they would see then if, after forty years of service, any one would dare to offer a pension of a hundred and fifty francs to an old man of sixty who spat out coal and whose legs were swollen with the water from the cuttings.
Et l'on saurait alors si, apres quarante années de service, on oserait offrir cent cinquante francs de pension a un vieillard de soixante ans, crachant de la houille, les jambes enflées par l'eau des tailles.