– Voici une bonne impertinence, se dit-elle en riant ; mais elle a failli, par ses affectations de veuve inconsolable, me faire perdre la tête sur un échafaud.
"There is a fine piece of impertinence," she said to herself, with a laugh, "but her affectations of inconsolable widowhood came very near to making me lose my head on a scaffold."