Rassi se présenta intrépidement au palais, pensant bien qu’il en serait quitte pour quelques coups de pied ; le prince ne pouvait se passer d’un jurisconsulte habile, et Rassi avait fait exiler comme libéraux un juge et un avocat, les seuls hommes du pays qui eussent pu prendre sa place.
Rassi presented himself boldly at the Palace, thinking that he would get out of the scrape with a few kicks; the Prince could not dispense with a talented jurist, and Rassi had procured the banishment as Liberals of a judge and a barrister, the only two men in the country who could have taken his place.