Les sentiments étaient assez justes, mais comme émoussés par l’expression, et ne valaient pas la peine d’être écrits ; le singulier, c’est que cet ex-cocher avait des passions et des façons de voir vives et pittoresques ; il devenait froid et commun dès qu’il écrivait.
The sentiments were true enough, but were so to speak blunted by his expression of them, and were not worth the trouble of putting them on paper; the curious thing was that this ex-coachman had passions and points of view that were vivid and picturesque; he became cold and commonplace as soon as he began to write.