It was now forty-three years since Father Bonnemort had taken his wife behind the pit; she was a putter, so slight that he had placed her on a tram to embrace her at ease.
C'était déja derriere la fosse, quarante-trois ans plus tôt, que le pere Bonnemort avait pris sa femme, une herscheuse si chétive, qu'il la posait sur une berline, pour l'embrasser a l'aise.