Original Text: UN TRIOMPHE D'AVOCAT.
Viens contre mon cœur, tu es acquitté!..... entre nous, tu méritais bien d'aller aux galères car tu es un fier gueux.... mais n'importe il est toujours bien doux de sauver ses semblables!.....
(Le voleur, fort ému chippe la bourse de son défenseur, histoire d'emporter un souvenir d'estime et d'amitié).
Translation: THE TRIUMPH OF A LAWYER.
Let me embrace you, you've been acquitted...... between you and me, you ought to have been sent to the galleys, you old scoundrel.... but never mind, it's always nice to be able to save one's own kind!
(Deeply moved, the thief picks his lawyer's pocket, so that he may have something to remind him of his respect and friendship).
|