Mosca pouvait avoir quarante ou quarante-cinq ans ; il avait de grands traits, aucun vestige d’importance, et un air simple et gai qui prévenait en sa faveur ; il eût été fort bien encore, si une bizarrerie de son prince ne l’eût obligé à porter de la poudre dans les cheveux comme gages de bons sentiments politiques.
Mosca might have been forty or forty-five; he had strongly marked features, with no trace of self-importance, and a simple and light-hearted manner which was greatly in his favour; he would have looked very well indeed, if a whim on the part of his Prince had not obliged him to wear powder on his hair as a proof of his soundness in politics.