" These men, who had listened quietly, with motionless mute faces, to the fraternal appeals and the friendly attempts to win them over, preserved the same stiff passivity beneath this hail of abuse.
Ces hommes qui avaient écouté, impassibles, d'un visage immobile et muet, les appels a la fraternité, les tentatives amicales d'embauchage, gardaient la meme raideur passive, sous cette grele de gros mots.