Quicker than a flash of lightning, the recluse had laid the two shoes together, had read the parchment and had put close to the bars of the window her face beaming with celestial joy as she cried,−−
En moins de temps qu’il n’en faut à l’éclair, la recluse avait confronté les deux souliers, lu l’inscription du parchemin, et collé aux barreaux de la lucarne son visage rayonnant d’une joie céleste en criant :