– J’ai la bonne habitude, dit la marquise à ces deux hommes, de ne détruire jamais aucun papier, et bien m’en prend ; voici neuf lettres que la Sanseverina m’a écrites en différentes occasions.
"I have the good habit," the Marchesa said to these two men, "of never destroying any paper; and well it has served me; here are nine letters which the Sanseverina has written me on different occasions.