Suivant sa jeune imagination, ce présage lui annonçait avec certitude le bon ou le mauvais succès ; et comme il avait plus de résolution qu’aucun de ses camarades, peu à peu toute la troupe prit tellement l’habitude des présages, que si, au moment de s’embarquer, on apercevait sur la côte un prêtre, ou si l’on voyait un corbeau s’envoler à main gauche, on se hâtait de remettre le cadenas à la chaîne du bateau, et chacun allait se recoucher.
According to his youthful imagination, this foreboding announced to him infallibly the success or failure of the expedition; and, as he had a stronger will than any of his companions, in course of time the whole band had so formed the habit of having forebodings that if, at the moment of embarking, one of them caught sight of a priest on the shore, or if someone saw a crow fly past on his left, they would hasten to replace the padlock on the chain of the boat, and each would go off to his bed.