non avenue, void, though it had never been written

1. 27. donnait de Veau bénite de cour, gave him nothing but empty promises.

1. 33. mes fonds sont engagés xwur quelques jours^ my capital is tied up for a few days.

Page 142. 1. 1. Cest comme un aval, it is as though he had backed my bills. Cp. note to p. 27, 1. 10.

1. 9. le livre d'échéances, ledger, account-book for ' bills receivable.'

1. 17. ordre du Tillet, payable to Du Tillet. Cp. p. 82, 1. 11.

Page 143. 1. 27. d'ici là, by that time.

1. 38. où Von x>rend . . . sur le capital d'existence, in which one breaks into the capital of life (i. e. instead of living on the interest only).

Page 144. 1. 11. de traites et de lettres de commande, of drafts and orders.