At first they had been satisfied with the yard at the Voreux, tumbling into the stock of coal, from which they would emerge looking like negroes, playing at hide-and-seek amid the supply of wood, in which they lost themselves as in the depths of a virgin forest.
D'abord, ils s'étaient contentés du carreau du Voreux, se culbutant dans le stock de charbon, d'ou ils sortaient pareils a des negres, faisant des parties de cache-cache parmi la provision des bois, au travers de laquelle ils se perdaient, comme au fond d'une foret vierge.