I said it was the sort of thing I had often longed for myself; and we discussed the possibility of our going away, we four, to some handy, well-fitted desert island, and living there in the woods.
Je lui répondis que j’avais les memes aspirations et nous caressâmes l’idée de par tir, tous les quatre, vers quelque belle île déserte et hospitaliere, ou nous vivrions dans les bois.