What would his resentment have been, had he known of all the follies with which Mathilde overpowered the devoted, but eminently reasonable and limited mind of the good Fouque?
Qu’eût-ce été, s’il eût connu toutes les folies dont Mathilde accablait l’esprit dévoué, mais éminemment raisonnable et borné du bon Fouqué?