Clélia lui écrivait une lettre de dix pages : elle lui avait juré jadis de ne jamais épouser le marquis sans son consentement ; maintenant elle le lui demandait, et Fabrice le lui accorda du fond de sa retraite de Velleja, par une lettre remplie de l’amitié la plus pure.
Clelia wrote him a letter of ten pages: she had sworn to him, before, that she would never marry the Marchese without his consent; now she asked this of him, and Fabrizio granted it from his retreat at Valleja, in a letter full of the purest friendship.