Was er aber vor allem in diesem mütterlichen Gebäude liebte, was seine Seele aufweckte und sie die armen Fittiche ausbreiten ließ, die sie in ihrem Innern so traurig zusammengefaltet trug, was ihn manchmal glücklich machte, das waren die Glocken.
What he loved above all else in the maternal edifice, that which aroused his soul, and made it open its poor wings, which it kept so miserably folded in its cavern, that which sometimes rendered him even happy, was the bells.