He had to stop in bed when he was ill, and eat chicken and custards and hot-house grapes; and he would lie there and sob, because they wouldn't let him do Latin exercises, and took his German grammar away from him.
Il devait s’aliter quand il était malade, et s’alimentait de poulet, de flans, de raisins de serre. Et il gisait la, sanglotant, parce qu’on lui interdisait ses exercices de latin et qu’on lui enlevait des mains la grammaire allemande.