En revenant se ranger à la queue des autres hussards restés à quelques pas en arrière, il vit le plus gros de ces généraux qui parlait à son voisin, général aussi, d’un air d’autorité et presque de réprimande ; il jurait.
As he came back to take his place behind the other hussars, who had halted a few paces in rear of them, he noticed the biggest of these generals, who was speaking to his neighbour, a general also, in a tone of authority and almost of reprimand; he was swearing.