He listened most attentively to all my story, and smiled at most of the particulars, being all of them petty matters, and infinitely below what he had been at the head of; but when I came to the story of Brickhill, he was surprised.
Il écouta très attentivement toute mon histoire, et sourit de mes aventures, étant toutes infiniment au-dessous de celles qu'il avait dirigées en chef; mais quand je vins à l'histoire de Little Brickhill, il demeura surpris: