"He never talks more," she replied. "Last week two travelers in the cloth line were here—such clever chaps who told such jokes in the evening, that I fairly cried with laughing; and he stood there like a dab fish and never said a word."
-- Jamais il ne cause davantage, répondit-elle; il est venu ici, la semaine dernière, deux voyageurs en draps, des garçons pleins d’esprit qui contaient, le soir, un tas de farces que j’en pleurais de rire; eh bien, il restait là, comme une alose, sans dire un mot.