Il n’était point arrivé seul à Milan, il avait dans sa voiture le duc Sanseverina-Taxis, joli petit vieillard de soixante-huit ans, gris pommelé, bien poli, bien propre, immensément riche, mais pas assez noble.
He had not come to Milan alone; he had in his carriage the Duca Sanseverina-Taxis, a handsome little old man of sixty-eight, dapple-grey, very polished, very neat, immensely rich but not quite as noble as he ought to have been.