« Il me sera donc impossible, répétait trop souvent l’âme vulgaire du général, le ciel m’ayant donné pour fille la plus belle personne des Etats de notre souverain, et la plus vertueuse, d’en tirer quelque parti pour l’avancement de ma fortune !
"It is apparently going to be impossible for me," the General in his vulgarity of spirit was too prone to repeat, "heaven having given me as a daughter the most beautiful person in the States of our Sovereign, and the most virtuous, to derive any benefit from her for the advancement of my fortune!