On this the subaltern of the Rifles, who was a fine well-grown lad, ran forward and drove full tilt at him with one of the queer crooked swords that the rifle-men carry.
À cette vue, le sous-officier des carabiniers, un grand beau jeune homme, courut en avant, fonçant sur lui avec ce singulier sabre courbé que portent les carabiniers.