Le seul archevêque eut l’esprit, ou plutôt le cœur, de deviner que l’honneur défendait au comte de rester premier ministre dans un pays où l’on allait couper la tête, et sans le consulter, à un jeune homme, son protégé.
The Archbishop alone had the intelligence or rather the heart to divine that honour forbade the Conte to remain Prime Minister in a country where they were going to cut off the head, and without consulting him, of a young man who was under his protection.