Sur le midi, la pluie à verse continuant toujours, Fabrice entendit le bruit du canon ; ce bonheur lui fit oublier tout à fait les affreux moments de désespoir que venait de lui donner cette prison si injuste.
Towards midday, the rain still continuing to fall in torrents, Fabrizio heard the sound of the guns; this joy made him completely oblivious of the fearful moments of despair in which so unjust an imprisonment had plunged him.