It was horribly lonesome and dismal, and all the policemen he met regarded him with undisguised suspicion, and turned their lanterns on him and followed him about, and this had such an effect upon him at last that he began to feel as if he really had done something, and he got to slinking down the by-streets and hiding in dark doorways when he heard the regulation flip-flop approaching.
Les rues étaient horriblement désertes et lugubres, et tous les agents de police qu’il croisait le regardaient passer d’un oeil soupçonneux en dirigeant sur lui leurs lanternes. Cette méfiance provoqua en lui un tel effet qu’il lui semblait avoir réellement commis un mauvais coup.