Ils avaient loué des chambres au rez-de-chaussée ou au premier étage, cachés derrière les persiennes et gardant un profond silence, ils observaient tout ce qui se passait dans la rue, en apparence la plus solitaire, et entendaient ce qu’on y disait.
They had taken rooms on the ground floors or on the first storeys of the houses; hidden behind the shutters and keeping absolutely silent, they observed everything that went on in the apparently quite deserted street, and heard all that was said.