He was talking of his youth; he described the death of his two uncles who were crushed at the Voreux; then he turned to the inflammation of the lungs which had carried off his wife.
C'était de sa jeunesse qu'il causait, il disait la mort de ses deux oncles écrasés au Voreux, puis il passait a la fluxion de poitrine qui avait emporté sa femme.