Ne nous abusons pas, don't let us deceive ourselves

1. 37. ... a été rondement menée, nothing was spared in launching . . .

Page 41. 1. 2. clissées en roseau, encased in plaited reedgrass.

1. 4. tout ce qui Vintrigue, everything that awakens his curiosity.

1. 6. afin de faire de fortes remises aux détaillants, so as to give a high commission to retail-dealers.

1. 24. Bérénice, a tragedy by Racine (see note to p. 95, 1. 39), in which two rival monarchs, one of whom is Antiochus, king of * Comagène,' woos Bérénice, queen of Palestine.

1. 36. baillerai, will give ; bailler was the ordinary verb meaning ' to give ' in Old French ; now it survives only as a légal and commercial term, and in the expression vous me la baillez belle, you are humbugging me.

Page 42. 1. 1. en nature, in their natural state.