Puis il montait au clocher : c’était une grande faveur et que l’abbé Blanès n’avait jamais accordée à personne ; mais il aimait cet enfant pour sa naïveté. – Si tu ne deviens pas hypocrite, lui disait-il, peut-être tu seras un homme.
Then he would go up to the belfry: this was a great favour and one that Priore Blanès had never granted to anyone; but he liked the boy for his simplicity. "If you do not turn out a hypocrite," he would say to him, "you will perhaps be a man."