His expression was full of spirit and confidence, and he wore a grim sort of half-smile which I had seen many a time in our boyhood, and which meant, I knew, that his pride had set iron hard, and that his senses would fail him long before his courage.
Il avait cette sorte de demi-sourire farouche que je lui avais vu bien des fois dans le cours de notre adolescence et qui indiquait, sans lombre d'un doute pour moi, la détermination d'un orgueil dur comme fer. Il perdrait connaissance, longtemps avant que le courage labandonnât.