The image of Chaval haunted her, she talked of him confusedly, she described the dog's life she led with him, the only day when he had been kind to her at Jean-Bart, the other days of follies and blows, when he would kill her with caresses after having covered her with kicks.
L'image de Chaval la hantait, et elle parlait de lui confusément, elle racontait leur existence de chien, le seul jour ou il s'était montré gentil, a Jean-Bart, les autres jours de sottises et de gifles, quand il la tuait de ses caresses, apres l'avoir rouée de coups.