Si on lui eût proposé de donner cent louis pour devenir premier grand vicaire de l’archevêque de Parme, il eût repoussé cette idée avec horreur ; mais quoiqu’il ne manquât ni d’esprit ni surtout de logique, il ne lui vint pas une seule fois à l’esprit que le crédit du comte Mosca, employé en sa faveur, fût une simonie.
If anyone had suggested to him that he should pay a hundred louis to become First Grand Vicar of the Archbishop of Parma, he would have rejected such an idea with horror; but, albeit he was not wanting in intelligence, nor above all in logic, it never once occurred to his mind that the employment on his behalf of Conte Mosca's influence was a form of Simony.