The family, the neighbors, everyone, expected to see him turn for the worse at any moment.

The doctor--a very expensive doctor, who charged five francs for each visit--apprehended internal injuries, and these words filled everyone with fear.

It was said in the neighborhood that the zinc-worker's heart had been injured by the shock.

Gervaise alone, looking pale through her nights of watching, serious and resolute, shrugged her shoulders.

Her old man's right leg was broken, everyone knew that; it would be set for him, and that was all.