The Marquis behaved admirably to his wife; he saw to it that her drawing-room was adequately filled; not with peers, he found his new colleagues scarcely noble enough to come to his house as friends, nor entertaining enough to be admitted as subordinates.
Le marquis était parfait pour sa femme ; il veillait à ce que son salon fût suffisamment garni ; non pas de pairs, il trouvait ses nouveaux collègues pas assez nobles pour venir chez lui comme amis, pas assez amusants pour y être admis comme subalternes.