One day, even, he had forced Lydie to steal from her mother, and made her bring him two dozen sticks of barley-sugar, which Pierronne kept in a bottle on one of the boards in her window; and the little girl, who was well beaten, had not betrayed him because she trembled so before his authority.
Un jour meme, il avait forcé Lydie a voler sa mere, il s'était fait apporter par elle deux douzaines de sucres d'orge que la Pierronne tenait dans un bocal, sur une des planches de sa fenetre; et la petite, rouée de coups, ne l'avait pas trahi, tellement elle tremblait devant son autorité.