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Tue 27 Sep, 2011 08:47 am
Context:
"I am sure of it. Madness always begins like that.We have an instance of it here. There was an abbe in the cell before you came: it was through his unceasingly offering a million francs to the governor if he would set him free that his brain was turned."
@oristarA,
The passage is referring to the instance of the abbe's brain turning to madness.
@InfraBlue,
Thank you.
But the causality between "if he would set him free" and "that his brain was turned (madness)" cannot hold water.
@oristarA,
Sure it can. Every instance of the use of the third person singular possessive and objective pronouns in that final phrase refers to the abbé. The single use of the third person singular subjective pronoun refers to the governor, and the reference is obvious.
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