When the archdeacon had repeated to the condemned girl; "He is dead," the fact is that he knew nothing about it, but that he believed it, that he counted on it, that he did not doubt it, that he devoutly hoped it.
Quand l’archidiacre avait répété à la condamnée : Il est mort, le fait est qu’il n’en savait rien, mais qu’il le croyait, qu’il y comptait, qu’il n’en doutait pas, qu’il l’espérait bien.