Le comte se fit reconduire chez lui au galop ; il cria en passant qu’on ne laissât monter âme qui vive, fit dire à l’auditeur de service qu’il lui rendait la liberté (savoir un être humain à portée de sa voix lui était odieux), et courut s’enfermer dans la grande galerie de tableaux.
The Conte made his coachman drive him home at a gallop; he called out as he crossed the threshold that not a living soul was to be allowed upstairs, sent word to the auditor on duty that he might take himself off (the knowledge that there was a human being within earshot was hateful to him), and hastened to shut himself up in the great picture gallery.