Note 10 — DEUXIÈME ÉPISODE
Reading edition · Edition 2
48 11 Va te promener! lit. 'go take a walk!' transl. 'much good it did him!'--sa vigueur le prouvait bien 'her vigor proved it (that she was deaf) conclusively.' 'To strike like a deaf person,' frapper comme un sourd, is said of one who uses the cudgel energetically and wildly, as if he did not hear the laments of his victim.