In the bed on the left, Zacharie, the eldest, a youth of one-and-twenty, was asleep with his brother Jeanlin, who had completed his eleventh year; in the right-hand bed two urchins, Lénore and Henri, the first six years old, the second four, slept in each other's arms, while Catherine shared the third bed with her sister Alzire, so small for her nine years that Catherine would not have felt her near her if it were not for the little invalid's humpback, which pressed into her side.
Dans le lit de gauche, Zacharie, l'aîné, un garçon de vingt et un ans, était couché avec son frere Jeanlin, qui achevait sa onzieme année; dans celui de droite, deux mioches, Lénore et Henri, la premiere de six ans, le second de quatre, dormaient aux bras l'un de l'autre; tandis que Catherine partageait le troisieme lit avec sa soeur Alzire, si chétive pour ses neuf ans, qu'elle ne l'aurait meme pas sentie pres d'elle, sans la bosse de la petite infirme qui lui enfonçait les côtes.