Après quinze jours de prison, pendant lesquels le savant n’avait vu qu’un avocat qui lui avait fait une peur horrible des lois atroces dirigées par la pusillanimité des gens au pouvoir contre les porteurs d’armes cachées, un autre avocat visita la prison et lui raconta la promenade infligée par le comte M*** à un rival qui était resté inconnu.
After a fortnight in prison, during which time the scholar had seen no one but a lawyer who had put in him a terrible fright by his account of the atrocious laws aimed by the pusillanimity of those in power against the bearers of hidden arms, another lawyer visited the prison and told him of the expedition inflicted by Conte M------ on a rival who had not yet been identified.