Son bonheur fut au comble ; toutefois il ne put deviner lequel des quatre généraux était le maréchal Ney ; il eût donné tout au monde pour le savoir, mais il se rappela qu’il ne fallait pas parler.
His happiness knew no bounds; only he had no way of telling which of the four generals was Marshal Ney; he would have given everything in the world to know, but he remembered that he had been told not to speak.