He had even accepted, as a lucky chance, at the last moment, their offer to keep him as divisional engineer, thus resigning himself to watch, as a simple salaried servant, over that pit which had swallowed up his fortune.
Meme il avait accepté, au dernier moment, comme une chance heureuse, leur offre de le garder a titre d'ingénieur divisionnaire, résigné a surveiller ainsi, en simple salarié, cette fosse ou il avait englouti sa fortune.