I sat down in the little dining-room under the illustrated calendars, the chiselled daggers, and the leather bottles from the Sudan which a brother of M. Meaulnes, who had been in the marines, had brought home from his distant travels . . .
Je m’assis dans la petite salle à manger, sous les calendriers illustrés, les poignards ornementés et les outres soudanaises qu’un frère de M. Meaulnes, ancien soldat d’infanterie de marine, avait rapportés de ses lointains voyages.