« Il serait digne de mon frère, se dit-il, d’avoir fait couper cet arbre ; mais ces êtres-là ne sentent pas les choses délicates ; il n’y aura pas songé.
"It would be quite worthy of my brother," he said to himself, "to have had the tree cut down; but those creatures are incapable of delicate shades of feeling; he will never have thought of it.