He had a burly shop-keeping stomach--nothing but stomach--in which therest of his body seemed to have got stowed away; the flabby paunch ofmen who spend their lives sitting, and who have neither thighs, norchest, nor arms, nor neck; the seat of their chairs having accumulatedall their substance in one spot.
Il avait un gros ventre de boutiquier, rien qu'un ventre où semblaitréfugié le reste de son corps, un de ces ventres mous d'hommes toujoursassis, qui n'ont plus ni cuisses, ni poitrine, ni bras, ni cou, le fondde leur chaise ayant tassé toute leur matière au même endroit.