The prelate quoted a number of odes, but at times his memory began to fail him, and immediately Julien would recite the entire ode, with a modest air; what struck the Bishop was that Julien never departed from the tone of the conversation; he said his twenty or thirty Latin verses as he would have spoken of what was going on in his Seminary.
Le prélat cita plusieurs odes, mais quelquefois sa mémoire était paresseuse, et sur-le-champ Julien récitait l’ode tout entière, d’un air modeste ; ce qui frappa l’évêque fut que Julien ne sortait point du ton de la conversation ; il disait ses vingt ou trente vers latins comme il eût parlé de ce qui se passait dans son séminaire.