The day before she had understood nothing of the fury of the strike; she thought that when one has one's share of blows it is useless to go and seek for more. And now her heart was swelling with hatred; she remembered what Étienne had often told her when they used to sit up; she tried to hear what he was now saying to the soldiers.
La veille encore, elle ne comprenait rien aux coleres de la greve, elle pensait que, lorsqu'on a sa part de gifles, il est inutile d'en chercher davantage; et, a cette heure, son coeur se gonflait d'un besoin de haine, elle se souvenait de ce qu'Étienne racontait autrefois a la veillée, elle tâchait d'entendre ce qu'il disait maintenant aux soldats.