Meanwhile, from time to time, as he passed the last groups of bourgeois closing their doors, he caught some scraps of their conversation, which broke the thread of his pleasant hypotheses.
Cependant de temps en temps, en passant devant les derniers groupes de bourgeois fermant leurs portes, il attrapait quelque lambeau de leurs conversations qui venait rompre l’enchaînement de ses riantes hypothèses.