« L’abbé Blanès a plus de quatre-vingt-trois ans, se dit-il tristement, il ne vient presque plus au château, à ce que m’a raconté ma sœur ; les infirmités de la vieillesse ont produit leur effet.
"Priore Blanès is eighty-three at the very least," he said sorrowfully to himself; "he hardly ever comes to the castle now, from what my sister tells me; the infirmities of old age have had their effect on him.