As to me, I cannot say whether I spoke or not, but I know that my mind and my memory were clearer than I can ever remember them, and I was thinking all the time about the old folk at home, and about Cousin Edie with her saucy, dancing eyes, and de Lissac with his cat's whiskers, and all the doings at West Inch, which had ended by bringing us here on the plains of Belgium as a cockshot for two hundred and fifty cannons.
Quant à moi, je ne saurais dire si je parlai ou non, mais je sais que j'avais l'intelligence et la mémoire plus claires que je ne les ai jamais eues, que je pensai tout le temps aux vieux parents laissés à la maison, à la cousine Edie, à ses yeux fripons et mobiles, à de Lissac et ses moustaches de chat, à toutes les aventures de West Inch, qui avaient fini par nous conduire dans les plaines de Belgique, servir de cible à deux cent cinquante canons.