But although he was in port, and precisely because he was in port, he never recalled without disquiet the varied haps of his political career, so long uneasy and laborious.
Mais, quoiqu’il fût au port, et précisément parce qu’il était au port, il ne se rappelait jamais sans inquiétude les chances diverses de sa vie politique, si longtemps alarmée et laborieuse.