L’une de ces lettres contenait de fort jolies plaisanteries sur les pleurs que le prince avait la nuit, et sur la déplorable maigreur de la marquise Baldi, sa maîtresse, laquelle laissait, dit-on, la marque d’une pincette sur le coussin des bergères après s’y être assise un instant.
One of these letters contained some very pretty witticisms with regard to the fears from which the Prince suffered at night, and to the deplorable thinness of the Marchesa Balbi, his mistress, who left a dint in the sofa-cushions, it was said, like the mark made by a pair of tongs, after she had sat on them for a moment.