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Ethan Frome — Chapter 11 in French

By Edith Wharton

Ethan n'avait aucune souplesse pour tromper. Ethan had no suppleness in deceiving. Il n'avait jamais auparavant été convaincu de mensonge, et tous les moyens d'évasion lui avaient échoué. He had never before been convicted of a lie, and all the resources of evasion failed him. "Je suppose que c'était un malentendu," balbutia-t-il. “I guess that was a misunderstanding,” he stammered.
"Tu n'as pas l'argent?" “You ain’t got the money?”
"Non." “No.”
"Et tu ne vas pas l'avoir?" “And you ain’t going to get it?”