The building of the church and the sentences passed by the Justice brought him sudden enlightenment; an idea which occurred to him drove him almost out of his senses for some weeks, and finally took possession of him with the absolute power of the first idea which a passionate nature believes itself to have discovered.
La construction de l’église et les sentences du juge de paix l’éclairèrent tout à coup ; une idée qui lui vint le rendit comme fou pendant quelques semaines, et enfin s’empara de lui avec la toute-puissance de la première idée qu’une âme passionnée croit avoir inventée.