Ce qui nous fit veiller surtout, ce fut l’histoire de la duchesse Sanseverina à laquelle quelqu’un fit allusion, et que le neveu voulut bien raconter tout entière, en mon honneur.
What more than anything kept us up was the story of the Duchessa Sanseverina, to which someone made an allusion, and which the nephew was good enough to relate from beginning to end, in my honour.