But it was a false report; only Négrel and Dansaert were there. They both showed themselves for a moment at a window of the receiving-room; the head captain stood in the background, rather out of countenance since his adventure with Pierronne, while the engineer bravely looked round on the crowd with his bright little eyes, smiling with that sneering contempt in which he enveloped men and things generally.
Mais c'était un faux bruit, il n'y avait la que Négrel et Dansaert, qui tous deux se montrerent un instant a une fenetre de la recette: le maître-porion se tenait en arriere, décontenancé depuis son aventure avec la Pierronne; tandis que l'ingénieur, bravement, promenait sur la foule ses petits yeux vifs, souriant du mépris goguenard dont il enveloppait les hommes et les choses.