Ce qui détermina Fabrice à rester, c’est que les hussards ses nouveaux camarades lui faisaient bonne mine ; il commençait à se croire l’ami intime de tous les soldats avec lesquels il galopait depuis quelques heures.
What made Fabrizio decide to stay where he was was that the hussars, his new comrades, seemed so friendly towards him; he began to imagine himself the intimate friend of all the troopers with whom he had been galloping for the last few hours.