En arrivant sur l’autre rive, Fabrice y avait trouvé les généraux tout seuls ; le bruit du canon lui sembla redoubler ; ce fut à peine s’il entendit le général, par lui si bien mouillé, qui criait à son oreille :
On reaching the farther bank, Fabrizio had found the generals there by themselves; the noise of the guns seemed to him to have doubled; and it was all he could do to hear the general whom he had given such a good soaking and who now shouted in his ear: