[13] Cum navigarent, non est dubium quod olli erexerant arbores, when they were at sea, there is no doubt that the masts were already up.
M. Bergeret had reached this point in his work when Euphémie opened the study door with the noise that always accompanied her slightest movement, and repeated the considerate message sent by Madame Bergeret to her husband:
“Madame wants to know how you would like your eggs cooked?”
M. Bergeret’s only reply was a gentle request to Euphémie to withdraw. He went on writing:
“ran the risk of breaking, it was customary to lower them, by lifting them out of the well in which their heels were inserted....”
Euphémie stood fixed against the door, while M. Bergeret finished his slip.
“The masts were then stored abaft either on a crossbar or a bridge.”
“Sir, Madame told me to say that the eggs come from Trécul’s.”
“Una omnes fecere pedem.”[14]
[14] Una omnes fecere pedem, then with one accord they veered out the sheet.