Fabrice avait quelque connaissance des hommes, mais aucune expérience des passions, sans quoi il se fût dit que ce plaisir d’un moment, auquel il allait céder, rendrait inutiles tous les efforts qu’il faisait depuis deux mois pour oublier Clélia.
Fabrizio had some knowledge of men, but no experience of the passions, otherwise he would have told himself that this momentary pleasure, to which he was about to yield, would render futile all the efforts that he had been making for the last two months to forget Clelia.