He was a Pole, an old refugee, it was said, whohad gone through terrible things out there, and who had come to plyhis calling as a chemist and druggist in France after passing a freshexamination.
C'était unvieux Polonais, réfugié politique, disait-on, qui avait eu des histoiresterribles là-bas, et qui était venu exercer en France, après nouveauxexamens, son métier de pharmacien.