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IC4 18— A l'impossible nul n'est tenu : There is no doing impossibilities.

104 22 — Traban : A soldier armed with a halberd. Some say this word cornes from the German traben, to trot, run. Littré thinks it may come frora trabe (Lat. trabes)^ a staff of a banner.

158 BERTRAND ET RATOX.

Page 10^ line i — Ça n'a pas de nom ! There is no namebad enough for such proceedings.

105 2 — C'est d'un arbitraire ! I neverheard of anything so arbitrary. Notice. — Il est d'une paresse ! ... I never knew anybody so idle. It means that the arbitrariness and the idleness are such that we cannot find a name to qualify them properly.

105 7 — Nous y sommes : We are in danger. Y, Lat. ibi, refers to danger. See the Etymological Vocabulary in this book.

105 20 — Prendre un parti : To take a resolution, make up one's mind. Notice. — Prendre le parti de quelqu'un, to take anyone's part ; Prendre la part de quelqu'un, to take anyone's share. Look for the différent significations oi ;^artiy partie^ and part.

SCExNE XI.

Io3 15 — Nous sommes du même bord : We belong to the same party (we are on the same tack). This is a famiiiar expression, like II est seul de son bord, he is the only one who thinks so.

109 3 — Comment il se fait : How it is. Notice. — Je ne

sais pas comment cela s'est fait, I do not know how it happened ; Comment faire ? what's to be done.

110 22 — Pesez: Consider ; from Lat. pensare, to weigh,

which has also formed pense?-, to think. The English, to ponder, cornes from 'Ld.i. po7idera7'e. 112 II — Dans les vingt-quatre heures : Within twenty-four hours.

ÎI3 20 — Il ne tient qu'à vous que . . . deviennent . . . : It will only be your fault if ... do not become ... or, you may, if you like, turn thèse proofs of your treachery into , , .