Et que serait devenue Votre Excellence, poursuivit-il en riant, si lorsqu’elle galopait ventre à terre sur ce cheval emprunté, il se fût avisé de faire un faux pas ?
"And where would Your Excellency be now," he went on with a smile, "if, while he was galloping away hell for leather on this borrowed horse, it had taken it into its head to make a false step?