The crayfish were still going round; the little crackling sound of their carapaces could be heard, while the conversation turned to politics, M. Grégoire, in spite of everything and though still trembling, called himself a Liberal and regretted Louis Philippe.
Les écrevisses passaient toujours, on entendait les petits craquements des carapaces, pendant que la conversation tombait sur la politique. Malgré tout, frémissant encore, M. Grégoire se disait libéral; et il regrettait Louis-Philippe.