No doubt he had sworn; only it could not be called life to wait with folded arms for things which would perhaps happen in a hundred years; and, besides, reasons of his own had decided him.
Sans doute, il avait juré; seulement, ce n'était pas une existence, d'attendre les bras croisés des choses qui arriveraient dans cent ans peut-etre; et, d'ailleurs, des raisons a lui le décidaient.