Le Rassi s’était surtout fait une position à part, en ce qu’il était impossible au noble le plus insolent de pouvoir l’humilier ; sa façon de se venger des injures qu’il essuyait toute la journée était de les raconter au prince, auquel il s’était acquis le privilège de tout dire ; il est vrai que souvent la réponse était un soufflet bien appliqué et qui faisait mal, mais il ne s’en formalisait aucunement.
This Rassi had above all created for himself a place apart, in that it was impossible for the most insolent noble to humiliate him; his method of avenging himself for the insults which he had to endure all day long was to relate them to the Prince, in whose presence he had acquired the privilege of saying anything; it is true that the reply often took the form of a well-directed cuff, which hurt him, but he stood on no ceremony about that.