A la parole du chambellan, Fabrice se sentit percer le cœur, et quoique ennemi mortel de toute scène publique, il fut sur le point d’aller lui dire qu’il avait été saisi d’un étourdissement subit ; mais il pensa qu’il serait en butte à des questions et à des compliments de condoléance, plus intolérables encore que le jeu.
At the Chamberlain's words Fabrizio felt his heart pierced, and although a lifelong enemy of anything like a scene in public, he was on the point of going to tell him that he had been seized with a sudden fit of giddiness; but he reflected that he would be exposed to questions and polite expressions of sympathy, more intolerable even than the game.