Le comte M***, accoutumé aux respects que lui assuraient en tous lieux son énorme fortune, son sang bleu et la bravoure de ses trente domestiques, ne voulut point entendre le langage de ce petit billet.
Conte M----, accustomed to the respect which was everywhere assured him by his enormous fortune, his blue blood and the physical courage of his thirty servants, declined altogether to understand the language of this little missive.