Alors, inutile de s’occuper davantage de lui, avait-on dit ; s’il ne convenait pas au pouvoir de le faire mourir en place publique, il mourrait bientôt de maladie.
And in that event, it was useless to think any more about him, people said; if it was not convenient to authority to put him to death in a public place, he would soon die of sickness.