The wide passages, divided into little gardens, back to back, between the four large blocks of uniform houses, were deserted; and these gardens, devastated by the winter, exhibited the destitution of their marly soil, lumped and spotted by the last vegetables.
Les larges voies, divisées en petits jardins adossés, restaient désertes, entre les quatre grands corps de maisons uniformes; et ces jardins, ravagés par l'hiver, étalaient la tristesse de leur terre marneuse, que bossuaient et salissaient les derniers légumes.