Nun schilderte ihm Homais, wie frei und flott er sich nach einer Operation werde bewegen können. Auch gab er ihm zu verstehen, daß er dann mehr Glück bei den Weibern haben würde, worüber der Bursche albern grinste.
Then Homais represented to him how much jollier and brisker he would feel afterwards, and even gave him to understand that he would be more likely to please the women; and the stable-boy began to smile heavily. Then he attacked him through his vanity: