A genoux, près du lit, son fils, un magistrat aux principes inflexibles, et sa fille, Marguerite, en religion soeur Eulalie, pleuraient éperdument. Elle les avait dès l'enfance, armés d'une intraitable morale, leur enseignant la religion sans faiblesses et le devoir sans pactisations. Lui, l'homme, était devenu magistrat, et brandissant la loi, il frappait sans pitié les faibles, les défaillants ; elle, la fille, toute pénétrée de la vertu qui l'avait baignée en cette famille austère, avait épousé Dieu, par dégoût des hommes.
Kneeling beside the bed, her son, a magistrate with inflexible principles, and her daughter, Marguerite, known as Sister Eulalie, were weeping as though their hearts would break. She had, from childhood up, armed them with a strict moral code, teaching them religion, without weakness, and duty, without compromise. He, the man, had become a judge and handled the law as a weapon with which he smote the weak ones without pity. She, the girl, influenced by the virtue which had bathed her in this austere family, had become the bride of the Church through her loathing for man.