– Tenez, madame, lui dit-il enfin comme se faisant violence, et d’un ton fort peu gracieux, vous me méprisez comme un enfant, et de plus, comme un être sans grâces : eh bien ! je vais vous dire une chose horrible, mais qui m’est suggérée à l’instant par la passion profonde et vraie que j’ai pour vous.
"Listen, Signora," he said at length, as though forcing himself to speak, and in a tone that was by no means gracious, "you look down on me as a child and, what is more, a creature without graces: very well, I am going to say something which is horrible, but which has just been suggested to me by the deep and true passion that I feel for you.