Every day at the same time the schoolmaster in a black skullcap opened the shutters of his house, and the rural policeman, wearing his sabre over his blouse, passed by.
Tous les jours, à la même heure, le maître d’école, en bonnet de soie noire, ouvrait les auvents de sa maison, et le garde- champêtre passait, portant son sabre sur sa blouse.