Si c’était à sa citadelle qu’il m’envoyât et que je pusse à force d’or parler à Fabrice, ne fût-ce qu’un instant, avec quel courage nous marcherions ensemble à la mort !
If it should be to his citadel that he sent me, and I could manage, by bribery, to speak to Fabrizio, were it only for an instant, with what courage would we step out together to death!