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The black clothes of clerics were not unknown upon those hills ; but these clothes, however clerical, had about them something at once commonplace and yet almost jaunty in comparison with the cassock or soutane, and marked the wearer as a man from the northwestern islands as clearly as if he had been labelled Clapham Junction. He carried a short thick umbrella with a knob like a club, at the sight of which his Latin friend almost shed tears of sentiment ; for it had figured in many adventures that they shared long ago. For this was the Frenchman’s English friend, Father Brown, paying a long desired but long-delayed visit.
(même si je n’imagine pas trop le P. Brown porter une si mondaine <em>soutanelle</em> 
) !