He was still a boy then, for all his seventeen years; his great anxiety was to know whether he had really been present at the battle, and, if so, whether he could say that he had fought, when he had not marched to the attack of any enemy battery or column.
Artean, umea zen Fabrice, hamazazpi urte zituen arren, eta ea bera benetan guduan ibilia zen jakitea zuen mutikoak kezka bakarra, eta, baldin eta guduan ibili bazen, ea han borrokatu zela esan ote zezakeen jakitea ere bai, ez baitzion berak eraso etsaiaren ezein ez bateriari ez zutaberi.