L’abbé faisait-il son métier de savant ; ou bien, comme il pensait souvent à Fabrice, quelque signe astrologique lui avait-il par un pur hasard annoncé son retour ?
Was the Priore speaking in his character as a diviner, or, indeed, as he often thought of Fabrizio, had some astrological sign, by pure chance, announced to him the young man's return?