Ce qui surtout faisait frémir le ministre et lui ôtait tout courage, c’est que le gouverneur de la citadelle était accusé de s’être défait jadis d’un capitaine, son ennemi personnel, au moyen de l’aquetta de Pérouse.
The one thing that made the Minister shudder and robbed him of all his courage was that the governor of the citadel was accused of having once before made away with a captain, his personal enemy, by means of the acquetta di Perugia.