Le fait peut être vrai, j’étais exalté ce jour-là : par exemple, je le voyais un grand homme, parce qu’il n’avait point trop de peur au milieu des premiers coups de fusil qu’il entendît de sa vie.
It may be so, I was excited that day; for instance, I looked on him as a great man, because he was not unduly frightened by the first shots he had ever heard fired in his life.