Ce jeune prince, savant en minéralogie, et qu’elle croyait un imbécile, avait eu l’esprit de lui écrire un petit billet ; mais il y avait de l’amour à la fin.
The young Prince, an expert in mineralogy, whom she regarded as an imbecile, had had the intelligence to write her a little note; but there was love at the end of it.