– D’abord, mon petit, lui dit la cantinière, qui devenait de plus en plus son amie, conviens que tu n’as pas vingt et un ans : c’est tout le bout du monde si tu en as dix-sept.
"First of all, my boy," said the cantinière, who was becoming more and more of a friend to him, "confess that you're not one-and-twenty: at the very most you might be seventeen."