His long meditations had fixed his ambition. While awaiting something better he would like to be Pluchart, leaving manual work in order to work only at politics, but alone, in a clean room, under the pretext that brain labour absorbs the entire life and needs quiet.
Ses longues songeries avaient fixé son ambition: en attendant mieux, il aurait voulu etre Pluchart, lâcher le travail, travailler uniquement a la politique, mais seul, dans une chambre propre, sous le prétexte que les travaux de tete absorbent la vie entiere et demandent beaucoup de calme.