My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasions for teasing and quarrelling with you as often as may be; and I shall begin directly by asking you what made you so unwilling to come to the point at last.
Mes bonnes qualités sont sous votre protection ; grossissez-les autant que vous voudrez. En retour, il m’appartiendra de vous taquiner et de vous quereller le plus souvent possible.