"I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was _croquant_--(overlook the barbarism)--_croquant_ chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the 'voiture' I had given Celine.
— In quel tempo mi piacevano anche i dolci, signorina Eyre, e mangiavo pasticche di cioccolata fumando, mentre guardavo le carrozze che passavano da quella strada di moda, vicina all'Opera. "A un tratto scorsi un elegante coupé, tirato da due magnifici cavalli inglesi.