In spite of your size I'm equal to you!" "Yes, that's it, at once.

Look sharp and off we go!" "Right you are, my boy!" They taunted each other, stimulated by Gervaise's presence.

Goujet placed the pieces of iron that had been cut beforehand in the fire, then he fixed a tool-hole of large bore on an anvil.

His comrade had taken from against the wall two sledge-hammers weighing twenty pounds each, the two big sisters of the factory whom the workers called Fifine and Dedele.

And he continued to brag, talking of a half-gross of rivets which he had forged for the Dunkirk lighthouse, regular jewels, things to be put in a museum, they were so daintily finished off.