There was nothing that he liked to talk of more than his old battles, but he would stop if he saw his little wife coming, for the one great shadow in her life was the ever-present fear that some day he would throw down sledge and rasp and be off to the ring once more.
Son sujet favori de conversation, c'était ses rencontres d'autrefois, mais il se taisait, dès qu'il voyait venir sa petite femme, car le grand souci qui pesait sur la vie de celle-ci était de lui voir jeter là le marteau et la lime pour retourner au champ clos.