Would you have famine bite me with its jaws which are gaping in front of me, blacker, deeper, and more noisome than a Tartarus or the nose of a monk?"
Voulez-vous que la famine me morde avec sa gueule qui est là, béante, devant moi, plus noire, plus puante, plus profonde qu’un tartare ou que le nez d’un moine ? »