Fabrice remarqua qu’en discutant ces gens répétaient trois ou quatre fois toutes les circonstances de son histoire : les soupçons des soldats, le gendarme lui vendant une feuille de route et un uniforme, la façon dont la veille il s’était trouvé faire partie de l’escorte du maréchal, l’Empereur vu au galop, le cheval escofié, etc.
Fabrizio noticed that in discussing him these people repeated three or four times all the circumstances of his story: the soldiers' suspicions, the gendarme selling him marching orders and a uniform, the accident by which, the day before, he had found himself forming part of the Marshal's escort, the glimpse of the Emperor as he galloped past, the horse that had been scoffed from him, and so on indefinitely.