'If I had only been less taken in by appearance,' he told himself, 'I should have seen that the drawing-rooms of Paris are inhabited by honest people like my father, or by able rascals like these gaolbirds.
À mesure que j’aurais été moins dupe des apparences, se disait-il, j’aurais vu que les salons de Paris sont peuplés d’honnêtes gens tels que mon père, ou de coquins habiles tels que ces galériens.