Un geôlier qui savait écrire remplaça Barbone ; Clélia vit sortir celui-ci, qui essuyait avec son mouchoir le sang qui coulait en abondance de son affreuse figure : il jurait comme un païen :
A gaoler who could write took Barbone's place; Clelia saw the latter emerge mopping with his handkerchief the blood that streamed in abundance from his hideous face; he was swearing like a heathen: