Ce témoignage fut complété par cent réponses à autant de questions furibondes du comte ; sa passion inquiète fit bien gagner à ces pauvres gens l’argent qu’il leur avait jeté : il finit par croire à ce qu’on lui disait, et fut moins malheureux.
This evidence was completed by a hundred answers to as many furious questions from the Conte; his uneasy passion made the poor couple earn in full measure the money that he had flung them: he ended by believing what they told him, and was less unhappy.