How then had he been able to explain, and in such language, the number of things that he could not have said so well before? He was usually shy, and maintained that reserve which partakes at once of modesty and dissimulation.
Comment donc avoir pu lui exposer, et en un tel langage, quantité de choses qu’il n’aurait pas si bien dites auparavant? il était timide d’habitude et gardait cette réserve qui participe à la fois de la pudeur et de la dissimulation.