The intensity of his happiness had restored all the energy of his nature: had a score of men appeared before him, to attack them single-handed would, at that moment, have been but a pleasure the more.
L’excès du bonheur lui avait rendu toute l’énergie de son caractère : vingt hommes se fussent présentés, que les attaquer seul, en cet instant, n’eût été qu’un plaisir de plus.