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Page 72.—1. au train dont on marchait, l'affaire était sûre, at the rate they were going, the outcome was certain.

Page 78.—1. qui avait de la voix et de la mesure, i.e. gui avait une belle voix et qui chantait en mesure (to keep time).

Page 75.—1. Abbasso il Francese! Italian words meaning “Down with the Frenchman.”

2. Sans savoir, ie. sans savoir de chemin, or à l'aventure (at random).

Page 76.—71. Fier toupet! Literally: “proud forelock”; freely: wonderful pluck.— la faire, sa punition, emphatic construction: “to undergo his punishment,” i.e. {o be punished in his stead,

Page 78.—1. Il s’en fallait ...que. Literally: “It lacked still more than one-fourth of a league” ...; freely: 7%ey were still at a distance of more than a kilometer from the place where ...

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