N’ayant plus le cœur de s’occuper de rien, le comte errait tristement dans sa galerie de tableaux, quand, un quart d’heure après, il reçut un billet ainsi conçu :
Having no longer the heart to devote himself to anything, the Conte was wandering gloomily through his picture gallery when, a quarter of an hour later, he received a note which ran as follows: