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complies, evening services in a monastery

5. Oremus Domine, Latin, "Let us pray, O Lord." The first words of almost every prayer said by the priest in the Catholic service.

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Page 82. — r. d'essuyeur de plâtres, lit., watt -wipers. Contrarily to what is done in this country, houses just completed rent cheaper in Paris than they will a few years later, as it is thought unhealthy to live in buildings the walls of which are not thoroughly dry.

2. le cinquième, i.e. the sixth floor. In counting floors in a house the first floor is called the "rez-de-chaussée" (i.e. level with the street) and what we call hère the second floor is termed "Le premier."

3. cloche à melon, melon bell, a glass bell that is used to cover melons in order to hasten their ripening. — cheminée à la prussienne, Prussian Jire place, a stove that very much resembles our Lady Franklin stoves.

Page 83- — t. par exemple, hère, on the other hand.

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