From the first day he made his appearance, Therese detested this cold, rigid individual, who imagined he honoured the shop in the arcade by making a display of his great shrivelled-up frame, and the exhausted condition of his poor little wife.
Dès le premier jour, Thérèse détesta ce garçon roide et froid qui croyait honorer la boutique du passage en y promenant la sécheresse de son grand corps et les défaillances de sa pauvre petite femme.