Il se leva éperdu, et se crut à la fin du monde, puis il pensa qu’il était en prison ; il lui fallut du temps pour reconnaître le son de la grosse cloche que quarante paysans mettaient en mouvement en l’honneur du grand saint Giovita, dix auraient suffi.
He rose in bewilderment and at first imagined that the end of the world had come; then he thought that he was in prison; it took him some time to recognise the sound of the big bell, which forty peasants were setting in motion in honour of the great San Giovila; ten would have been enough.