I must have given considerable food for reflection to the witnesses of this scene, who would no doubt ask themselves what my purpose could have been in paying a hundred francs for a book which I could have had anywhere for ten, or, at the outside, fifteen.
Je dus donner beaucoup à penser aux gens qui, témoins de cette scène, se demandèrent sans doute dans quel but j'étais venu payer cent francs un livre que je pouvais avoir partout pour dix ou quinze francs au plus.