Il ne se sentait pas de joie, et, pendant toute la soirée, il coupait la parole à tout le monde et racontait les anecdotes les plus saugrenues (par exemple, la célèbre actrice et le marquis de Pequigny, qu’il avait apprise la veille d’un voyageur français).
He was beside himself with joy, and throughout the evening cut everybody short, and told the most ridiculous stories (that, for example, of the famous actress and the Marquis de Pequigny, which he had heard the day before from a French visitor).