Jamais il n’avait eu le talent des affaires, et quatorze années passées à la campagne, entre ses valets, son notaire et son médecin, jointes à la mauvaise humeur de la vieillesse qui était survenue, en avaient fait un homme tout à fait incapable.
Never had he had any talent for business, and fourteen years spent in the country among his footmen, his lawyer and his doctor, added to the crustiness of old age which had overtaken him, had left him totally incapable of conducting business in any form.