The other delegates, though scarcely understanding, felt that their comrade had been demanding their share of this comfort; and they began to cast sidelong looks over the warm hangings, the comfortable seats, all this luxury of which the least knick-knack would have bought them soup for a month.
Les autres délégués, qui comprenaient mal, sentaient pourtant que le camarade venait de réclamer leur part, au milieu de ce bien-etre; et ils recommençaient a jeter des regards obliques sur les tentures chaudes, sur les sieges confortables, sur tout ce luxe dont la moindre babiole aurait payé leur soupe pendant un mois.