Je ne peux pas m'' en défendre. — I cannot help it

29. Je veux vous rendre la reconnaissance très^jficile. — Montrichard, in answer to the Countess's polite invitation, has just answered, Vous me comblez, Ton overwhelm me, you are too kind. She thereupon anawen a phrase that may mean either, I wish to render yonr gratitada

to me

yon see

▼ery difficnlt; or, I wish to render fhe récognition (of fhe one

j 3k) veiy difficnlt for yon,

80. FlestboncgitartUtefJe ne le connais phts. — The line hère refened to occnrs in Gomeille's Horace, Act n., ^.8: —

** Albe Toiu a nommé, Je ne yoom connais plu.''

81. Un procédé inqwûiJîàbU, — An unheard-of proceeding, or an unwarrantable behavior. Inqualifiable, thus nsed in common conversation, is alwa^s taken in a baa sensé.

82 Vendéens. — Prononnced as if spelled Vendé4n, — see Note 8. The term Vendéen embraces more than merely tbe inhabitants of Vendée. It was nsed to designate those who^ in tbe west of France, rose Bgainst the Bepnblic. Their motto was Dieu et le Roi.