– Mais s’il croyait utile à son avancement de jeter Fabrice en prison, il y serait déjà, et c’est lui marquer une défiance injurieuse que de le faire sauver.
"But, if he thought it would lead to his promotion to put Fabrizio in prison, the boy would be there now; it is showing an insulting defiance of the Barone to send him away."