pour le coup de midi, at twelve o'clock sharp

6. chassepot, the rifle then used in the army; it would now be called Lebel, both words being the names of the inventors of those arms.

Page 61. — 1. en furent quitte pour la peur, got ont of it with nothing ivorse than fright.

2. l'hôtel de ville, Cûy Hall; the building hère referred to was burned down a few days later by the Communists. A new structure has been erected on the same site.

3. un froufrou d'endimanchement, the rustling of Sunday dresses.

4. n'avait jamais de la vie avancé ni retardé, had never in the world been fast or slow.

Page 62. — i. creuse, hère, increases; lit., "digs."

2. Neuilly, a city north of Paris, and likewise on the river Seine.