Bonacieux was repeating, word for word, a sentence which he had heard from the Comte de Rochefort; but the poor wife, who had reckoned on her husband, and who, in that hope, had answered for him to the queen, did not tremble the less, both at the danger into which she had nearly cast herself and at the helpless state to which she was reduced.
Bonacieux repetía palabra por palabra una frase que había oído decir al conde de Rochefort; pero la pobre mujer, que había contado con su marido y que, en aquella esperanza, había respondido por él a la reina, no tembló menos, tanto por el peligro en el que ella había estado a punto de arrojarse, como por la impotencia en que se encontraba.