But we were bound to confess that he was game, though he might be a traitor, for down he came, striding into the midst of us with his brown coat and his buckled shoes, and the fire beating upon his grim, schoolmaster face.
Mais nous dûmes reconnaître qu'il fit bonne figure quand il marcha à nous en habit brun, en souliers à boucles, la colère empourprant son austère figure de maître d'école.