But the gaiety ceased; Mouquette told Maheu that Fleurance, big Fleurance, would never come again; she had been found the night before stiff in her bed; some said it was her heart, others that it was a pint of gin she had drunk too quickly.
Mais la gaieté tomba, Mouquette racontait a Maheu que Fleurance, la grande Fleurance, ne viendrait plus: on l'avait trouvée, la veille, raide sur son lit, les uns disaient d'un décrochement du coeur, les autres d'un litre de genievre bu trop vite.