M***, jaloux de toute la terre, devint spécialement jaloux de M. Joseph Bossi, et s’emporta en propos ridicules ; sur quoi tous les matins notre héros lui faisait parvenir une lettre qui ne contenait que ces mots :
M----, jealous of the whole world, became specially jealous of Signor Giuseppe Bossi, and indulged in ridiculous utterances; whereupon every morning our hero had delivered at his door a letter which contained only these words: