He showed him many others, even to doing errands for him at Rouen; and the book of a novelist having made the mania for cactuses fashionable, Leon bought some for Madame Bovary, bringing them back on his knees in the "Hirondelle," pricking his fingers on their hard hairs.
Il en avait bien d’autres, jusqu’à lui faire, à Rouen, ses commissions; et le livre d’un romancier ayant mis à la mode la manie des plantes grasses, Léon en achetait pour Madame, qu’il rapportait sur ses genoux, dans l’Hirondelle, tout en se piquant les doigts à leurs poils durs.