C’est cette crainte qui me force à dissimuler, qui m’oblige au hideux et déshonorant mensonge de feindre d’accepter les soins et les attentions publiques du marquis Crescenzi.
It is that fear which is forcing me to hide the truth, which is obliging me to act the hideous and degrading lie of pretending to accept the public attentions of the Marchese Crescenzi."