Such were the people among whom he must distinguish himself; but what Julien did not know, what they refrained from telling him, was that to be at the top of the various classes of dogma, church history, etc., etc., which were studied in the Seminary, was nothing more in their eyes than a sin of _vainglory_.
Tels étaient les gens au milieu desquels il fallait se distinguer ; mais ce que Julien ne savait pas, ce qu’on se gardait de lui dire, c’est que, être le premier dans les différents cours de dogme, d’histoire ecclésiastique, etc., etc., que l’on suit au séminaire, n’était à leurs yeux qu’un péché splendide.