His ill-digested reading came back to him, examples of nations who had burnt their towns to arrest the enemy, vague histories of mothers who had saved their children from slavery by crushing their heads against the pavement, of men who had died of want rather than eat the bread of tyrants.
Des lectures mal digérées lui revenaient, des exemples de peuples qui avaient incendié leurs villes pour arreter l'ennemi, des histoires vagues ou les meres sauvaient les enfants de l'esclavage, en leur cassant la tete sur le pavé, ou les hommes se laissaient mourir d'inanition, plutôt que de manger le pain des tyrans.