With the first rays of day their tongues were loosened; with the sun gaiety revived. It was like the eve of a battle; the heart beat, the eyes laughed, and they felt that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was, after all, a good thing.
A los primeros rayos del día, sus lenguas se soltaron; con el sol, la alegría volvió: era como en la víspera de un combate, el corazón palpitaba, los ojos reían; se sentía que la vida que quizá se iba a abandonar era, a fin de cuentas, algo bueno.