Original Text: - Saperlotte!... que je voudrais donc que ma femme ait fini d'improviser son quatrain sur les beautés de la nature dans la plaine St-Denis...! nous marchons toujours, mais ses vers n'avancent pas!....
Translation: Heavens!... I wished my wife would hurry up and finish her quatrain on "The beauty of nature in the plain of St. Denis"...! We keep walking and walking, but her poem doesn't seem to advance an inch.
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