– Si j’étais Borso Valserra, se dit-il (c’était un des généraux du premier Sforce), j’irais poignarder ce lourd marquis, précisément avec ce petit poignard à manche d’ivoire que Clélia me donna ce jour heureux, et je lui apprendrais s’il doit avoir l’insolence de se présenter avec cette marquise dans un lieu où je suis !
"If I were Borso Valserra," he said to himself (this being one of the generals of the first Sforza), "I should go and stab that lout of a Marchese, and with that very same dagger with the ivory handle which Clelia gave me on that happy day, and I should teach him to have the insolence to present himself with his Marchesa in a room in which I am."