Mon cheval n’est pas beau, se dit Fabrice ; mais qu’importe, il pourrait bien se trouver du goût de quelque adjudant, et il alla coucher à l’écurie à ses côtés.
"My horse is no beauty," Fabrizio said to himself, "but that makes no difference, he may easily take the fancy of some _adjutant_," and he went to lie down in the stable by its side.