Giletti s’imagina que Fabrice s’était placé ainsi au milieu de la route, et un fusil à la main, pour l’insulter et peut-être même pour lui enlever la petite Marietta.
Giletti imagined that Fabrizio had posted himself there in the middle of the road, and with a gun in his hand, to insult him, and perhaps even to carry off his little Marietta.