By slow degrees his vanity of leadership, his constant preoccupation of thinking in their place, left him free, breathing into him the soul of one of those bourgeois whom he execrated.
Lentement, sa vanité d'etre leur chef, sa préoccupation constante de penser a leur place, le dégageaient, lui soufflaient l'âme d'un de ces bourgeois qu'il exécrait.