As he was preparing the bed, Levaque just then came out to smoke a pipe in his own square, looking at the cos lettuces which Bouteloup had planted in the morning; for without the lodger's energy in digging nothing would have grown there but nettles.
Comme il préparait sa planche, Levaque justement vint fumer une pipe dans son carré a lui, en regardant des romaines que Bouteloup avait plantées le matin; car, sans le courage du logeur a becher, il n'aurait guere poussé la que des orties.