Ce travail de cacher la montre, qui dura deux grandes heures, ne lui sembla point long ; il songeait aux différents moyens de parvenir à son but, et à ce qu’il savait faire en travaux de menuiserie.
The work of concealing his watch, which occupied him for hours, did not seem to him at all long; he was thinking of the different ways of attaining his object and of what he himself could do in the way of carpentering.