Toutefois, poussé à bout par l’excès de sa mélancolie et par ces regards de Clélia qui constamment se détournaient de lui, il osa essayer de gagner deux domestiques de Mme Contarini, sa tante.
And yet, driven to extremes by the excess of his melancholy and by Clelia's constantly turning away her eyes from him, he made bold to try to purchase two of the servants of Signora Contarini, her aunt.