Since the working had been renewed he had hired himself on with others, more and more bitten by envy against this comrade, the new-comer who posed as a boss and whose boots, as he said, were licked by the whole settlement.
Depuis le renouvellement du marchandage, il s'était embauché avec d'autres, mordu peu a peu d'envie contre le camarade, ce dernier venu qui se posait en maître, et dont tout le coron, disait-il, léchait les bottes.