As for him, he would have been utterly ignorant of his situation had he not espied, in passing, at the turn of a street, the octagonal mass of the pillory of the fish markets, the open−work summit of which threw its black, fretted outlines clearly upon a window which was still lighted in the Rue Verdelet.
Quant à lui, il eût parfaitement ignoré où il était, s’il n’eût aperçu en passant, au détour d’une rue, la masse octogone du pilori des halles, dont le sommet à jour détachait vivement sa découpure noire sur une fenêtre encore éclairée de la rue Verdelet.