He did not know, but he wished to go down again to the mine, to suffer and to fight. And he thought fiercely of those people Bonnemort had talked of, the crouching and sated god, to whom ten thousand starving men gave their flesh without knowing it.
Il ne savait pas, il voulait redescendre dans la mine pour souffrir et se battre, il songeait violemment a ces gens dont parlait Bonnemort, a ce dieu repu et accroupi, auquel dix mille affamés donnaient leur chair, sans le connaître.