Et l’on savait que dans sa peur de déplaire il était homme à tenir parole, de façon que le marquis Crescenzi était obligé de payer triple ses musiciens fort choqués de cette nuit à passer en prison.
And they knew that, in his fear of giving offence, he was a man of his word, so that the Marchese Crescenzi was obliged to pay his musicians at a triple rate, they being greatly upset at thus having to spend a night in prison.