La duchesse avait remarqué qu’il était horriblement maigre ; mais ses yeux étaient tellement beaux et remplis d’une exaltation si tendre, qu’ils lui ôtèrent l’idée du crime.
The Duchessa had noticed that he was terribly thin; but his eyes were so fine, and filled with so tender an exaltation that they took from him any suggestion of crime.