Le comte Mosca, de son côté, travaillait, avec toute l’habileté dont il était capable, à fortifier chez ce juge vendu la passion de la baronnie, comme il cherchait à redoubler chez le prince la folle espérance de se faire roi constitutionnel de la Lombardie.
Conte Mosca, for his part, was toiling, with all the skill of which he was capable, to strengthen in this venal judge his passion for the Barony, just as he was seeking to intensify in the Prince his mad hope of making himself Constitutional Monarch of Lombardy.