Il avait beau regarder du côté d’où venaient les boulets, il voyait la fumée blanche de la batterie à une distance énorme, et, au milieu du ronflement égal et continu produit par les coups de canon, il lui semblait entendre des décharges beaucoup plus voisines ; il n’y comprenait rien du tout.
He looked vainly in the direction from which the balls were coming, he saw the white smoke of the battery at an enormous distance, and, in the thick of the steady and continuous rumble produced by the artillery fire, he seemed to hear shots discharged much closer at hand: he could not understand in the least what was happening.