Le jeune homme lui parla en si bons termes de la croix de Parme accordée à son gouverneur, et il exprima sa vive reconnaissance pour d’autres bienfaits dont il n’osait parler d’une façon aussi claire, avec une mesure si parfaite, que du premier coup d’œil le ministre le jugea favorablement.
The young man spoke to him with so apt a choice of terms of the Cross of Parma that had been conferred on his governor, and expressed his lively gratitude for certain other benefits of which he did not venture to speak in so open a fashion, with so perfect a restraint, that at the first glance the Minister formed an excellent impression of him.