He would have given everything his education, his comfort, his luxury, his power as manager, if he could be for one day the vilest of the wretches who obeyed him, free of his flesh, enough of a blackguard to beat his wife and to take his pleasure with his neighbours' wives.
Il aurait tout donné, son éducation, son bien-etre, son luxe, sa puissance de directeur, s'il avait pu etre, une journée, le dernier des misérables qui lui obéissaient, libre de sa chair, assez goujat pour gifler sa femme et prendre du plaisir sur les voisines.