Pauvre Gina ! se dit-il, et il avait les larmes aux yeux, lorsque tout à coup il entendit un petit bruit tout près de lui, c’était un soldat qui faisait manger le blé par trois chevaux auxquels il avait ôté la bride, et qui semblaient morts de faim ; il les tenait par le bridon.
"Poor Gina!" he said to himself. And tears stood in his eyes, when suddenly he heard a slight sound quite close to him: a soldier was feeding three horses on the standing corn; he had taken the bits out of their mouths and they seemed half dead with hunger; he was holding them by the snaffle.