No; a more material interest stirred his blood. He was about at last to pass that mysterious threshold, to climb those unknown stairs by which, one by one, the old crowns of M. Coquenard had ascended.
Non, un intérêt plus matériel lui fouettait le sang, il allait enfin franchir ce seuil mystérieux, gravir cet escalier inconnu qu'avaient monté, un à un, les vieux écus de maître Coquenard.