His colleague was silent, having just before privately received a severe lecture about his emetic, so that this good Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot, was to-day very modest. He smiled without ceasing in an approving manner.
Son confrère se taisait, ayant tout à l’heure reçu confidentiellement une forte semonce à propos de son émétique, de sorte que ce bon Canivet, si arrogant et verbeux lors du pied-bot, était très modeste aujourd’hui; il souriait sans discontinuer, d’une manière approbative.