To find encouragement, he repeated that it was time to gather in the harvest anticipated by the death of Camille, and he spread out before him, the advantages and blessings of his future existence: he would leave his office, and live in delicious idleness; he would eat, drink and sleep to his heart's content; he would have an affectionate wife beside him; and, he would shortly inherit the 40,000 francs and more of Madame Raquin, for the poor old woman was dying, little by little, every day; in a word, he would carve out for himself the existence of a happy brute, and would forget everything.
Il se répétait, pour s'encourager, qu'il était temps de tirer le profit attendu de la mort de Camille. Et il étalait devant lui les avantages, les bonheurs de son existence future: il quitterait son bureau, il vivrait dans une paresse délicieuse; il mangerait, il boirait, il dormirait son soûl; il aurait sans cesse sous la main une femme ardente qui rétablirait l'équilibre de son sang et de ses nerfs; bientôt il hériterait des quarante et quelques mille francs de Mme Raquin, car la pauvre vieille se mourait un peu chaque jour; enfin, il se créerait une vie de brute heureuse, il oublierait tout.