Bruno ayant bien compris le but de sa mission, se mit à écrire ses lettres de créance ; comme le comte lui donnait ses dernières instructions, il reçut une lettre parfaitement fausse, mais fort bien écrite ; on eût dit un ami écrivant à son ami pour lui demander un service.
Bruno, after clearly grasping the object of his mission, set to work to write his letters of credit. As the Conte was giving him his final instructions, he received a letter which was entirely false, but extremely well written; one would have called it the letter of a friend writing to a friend to ask a favour of him.