Original (English)

CHAPTER VI DREAMS OF LOVE Solemn moment approached for the two friends. They were to take their examinations for graduation. Upon the days when M. Violette—they now called him at the office "Father Violette," he had grown so aged and decrepit—was not too much "consoled" in the cafe in the Rue du Four, and when he was less silent and gloomy than usual, he would say to his son, after the soup: "Do you know, Amedee, I shall not be easy in my mind until you have received your degree