Je lui devrai la réputation d’un tyran ridicule qui se lève la nuit pour regarder sous son lit… » Alors, par une manœuvre adroite et comme cherchant à se promener pour diminuer son agitation, le prince se plaça de nouveau devant la porte du cabinet ; le comte était à sa droite à trois pas de distance, pâle, défait et tellement tremblant qu’il fut obligé de chercher un appui sur le dos du fauteuil que la duchesse avait occupé au commencement de l’audience, et que le prince dans un mouvement de colère avait poussé au loin.
I shall be obliged to her for the reputation of a ridiculous tyrant, who gets up in the middle of the night to look under his bed...." Then, by an adroit move and as though he were intending to walk up and down the room to reduce his agitation, the Prince took his stand once again in front of the door of the cabinet; the Conte was on his right, at a distance of three paces, pale, shattered, and trembling so that he was obliged to seek support from the back of the armchair in which the Duchessa had been sitting during the earlier part of the audience, and which the Prince in a moment of anger had pushed across the floor.