There was no work going on at Jean-Bart, and he had sworn to kill her if she worked again at the Voreux, where he feared that she would compromise him, So what was to be done?--to go elsewhere, to die of hunger, to yield beneath the blows of every man who might pass?
On ne travaillait plus a Jean-Bart, il avait juré de l'étrangler, si elle reprenait du travail au Voreux, ou il craignait d'etre compromis par elle. Alors, que faire? partir ailleurs, crever la faim, céder sous les coups de tous les hommes qui passeraient?