He has been so good as to give me the quietest and handsomest of horses; but after all he could not glue me on to it, and, that being so, I fell off right in the middle of that very long street near the bridge.'
Il a daigné me faire donner le cheval le plus doux et le plus joli ; mais enfin il ne pouvait pas m’y attacher, et, faute de cette précaution, je suis tombé au beau milieu de cette rue si longue, près du pont.