He felt the need of glorifying these workers, whose odour of wretchedness was now unpleasant to him; he would show that they alone were great and stainless, the only nobility and the only strength in which humanity could be dipped afresh.
Ces ouvriers dont l'odeur de misere le genait maintenant, il éprouvait le besoin de les mettre dans une gloire, il les montrerait comme les seuls grands, les seuls impeccables, comme l'unique noblesse et l'unique force ou l'humanité put se retremper.