All the morning the emptiness of the cupboard, the thought of the house without coffee and without butter, had been troubling him; the recollection came to him painfully while he was hammering at the seam, stifled at the bottom of the cutting.
Toute la matinée, le vide du buffet, la maison sans café et sans beurre, l'avait tracassé, lui était revenue en élancements douloureux, pendant qu'il tapait a la veine, suffoqué au fond de la taille.