He would manage to attract their attention by some dazzling feat: why should he not be loved by one of them just as Buonaparte, when still poor, had been loved by the brilliant Madame de Beauharnais.

他会通过一些令人眼花缭乱的壮举来吸引他们的注意力：为什么他不被他们中的一个人所爱， 就像波拿巴在还很穷的时候被才华横溢的博阿尔内夫人所爱一样。