sa cabane, his office- counter

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1. 10. qui n'est 2)as piqué des vers, lit. which is not worm-eaten, which is not at ail bad.

1. 23. Anselme vous a pr^is un petit nir pincé, Anselme's manner positively stififened. It is impossible to render in English the force of vous, which is the so-called ethic dative, or dative of interest, familiar to students of Latin and Gerraan.

1. 29. faute de, for not having. The sensé oï faute is hère derived from the older and original meaning oï falloir, to lack ; cp. the expressions peu s'en faut = neiiv\y, tant s'en faut =i'B,r from ; and, for the substantive, faute de mieux, for want of something better,

1. 36. arrivés à un parfait dépouillement, having reached their state of perfection and purity.

Page 146. 1. 5. ^;/ws 2)ar le bon ton, adopted by high Society.

1. 9. s'entendent en fait d'amour, understand one another in matters of love.