In his fat, good-humoured nature, nourished on beer, a secret jealousy was forming, increased by the desertion of his bar, into which the workmen from the Voreux now came more rarely to drink and to listen; and he thus sometimes even began to defend the Company, forgetting the rancour of an old miner who had been turned off.
Dans sa bonhomie d'homme gras, nourri de biere, montait une jalousie secrete, aggravée par la désertion de son débit, ou les ouvriers du Voreux entraient moins boire et l'écouter; et il en arrivait ainsi parfois a défendre la Compagnie, oubliant sa rancune d'ancien mineur congédié.