Plongé dans des angoisses qui eussent fait pitié à son plus cruel ennemi, il se disait : « L’homme que j’abhorre loge chez la duchesse, passe tous ses moments avec elle.
Plunged in an anguish that would have moved to pity his most implacable enemy, he said to himself: "The man I abhor is living in the Duchessa's house; he spends every hour of the day with her.