Entouré de vingt-cinq ou trente domestiques qu’il supposait dévoués, apparemment parce qu’il ne leur parlait jamais que l’injure à la bouche, il était moins tourmenté par la peur qu’à Milan.
Surrounded by some twenty-five or thirty retainers whom he supposed to be devoted to his person, presumably because he never opened his mouth except to curse them, he was less tormented by fear than at Milan.