Good death (fr. Bonnemort)

Translation into English

Depuis dix jours, le pere Bonnemort, les pattes engourdies comme il disait, restait cloué sur une chaise.

For ten days Father Bonnemort, with benumbed paws, as he said, had remained nailed to his chair.

Mouque et Bonnemort, le nez vers la terre, gardaient au milieu du tumulte un silence de profonde approbation.

Mouque and Bonnemort, with their faces towards the ground, in the midst of the tumult preserved a silence of profound approbation.

En haut, le père Bonnemort ronflait toujours, d'un ronflement rythmé qui berçait la maison.

Up above, Father Bonnemort was still snoring with a rhythmic snore which rocked the house.

Bonnemort, chancelant sur ses jambes mortes, était tombé près d'elle, sans pouvoir se relever.

Bonnemort, tottering on his dead legs, had fallen beside her without power to rise.

Bonnemort était là, seul, les yeux larges et fixes, cloué sur une chaise, devant la cheminée froide.

Bonnemort was there alone, with large fixed eyes, nailed to his chair in front of the cold fireplace.

Les deux vieux, Bonnemort et Mouque, tres graves, hochaient la tete.

The two old men, Bonnemort and Mouqe, were gravely shaking their heads.

Le pere Bonnemort crachait dans son mouchoir, tandis que Maheu, sa pipe éteinte, l'oubliait a sa bouche.

Father Bonnemort spat into his handkerchief, while Maheu sat with his extinguished pipe, which he had forgotten, in his mouth.