rr. : transl. ‘but no sooner
4 Popular expression. Transl, ‘all my Courage failed me” See Promener in Vocab,.
17. autant is used to express comparison, 7: ant expresses an idea of indefinite quantity. nly be used instead of autant in a sent
Mparison is accom- Panied by à negation. Ex. —
Êque ce rubis.
ël à tant d ‘amis qu'il ne manquera jamais de rien.
que cette nouvelle.
re used as à sort of exclam
Transl. « you see.’
» 18. touten faisant : out, followed by ex and a Present participle, is Senerally used to express an idea of simultaneity. It may sometimes be omitted in English, sometimes translated ‘whilst,' ‘in.’
‘* 23. ton papa isin APposition to Z, which is really redundant.
‘* 27. tu voudras bien de . ., ‘you won't mind taking.” 19. 7. cela refers io the phrase
Pourtant, : hevertheless '
ation to
HX Étres gut, etc.
: notwithstanding,
is here used to
EIRE PTE ISERE
PER TRRIETLT ET
ee
Dev
LR RAR EE Lu ot
Lord Cavendale . . :
- en mineur : i.e. ‘in a minor key.’
la première entrevue :
Auvergne : an ancient province of France,
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contradict, as it were, the former tenor of the Sister's thoughts or experience. ‘The idea she has in her mind is, ‘in spite of what I should have taken to be the case, there are, however, two beings,' etc.
19. 16. elle s'appelait alors : on becoming a Sister a woman would
always drop her title, and often change her name.
Annette de Cardaillan : de is used in proper names as a sign of nobility. An attempt was made to suppress this de at the time of the Revolution.
» 17. Sacré-Cœur: the adoration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was
instituted at the end of the seventeenth century. The name was afterwards applied to a band of nuns devoted to the worship of the Sacred Heart, who also attend to the education of young girls. ‘The monks belonging to the same order are known as the ‘ Pères de la congrégation des Sacrés- Cœurs de Jésus et de Marie.” Their establishment is at 33 Rue de Picpus, south of the Place de la Nation, on the right bank of the Seine. ‘Le Couvent du Sacré-Cœur is situated close to the Hôtel des Invalides.
this is a sort of parenthetical sentence, and is at the same time elliptical. It serves to explain the preceding phrase, and has no other function. Note that the French have borrowed the English word ‘lord.’
In the minor mode the third and sixth above the tonic are minor.
mazurka : this word may be spelt ina variety of ways, e.g.
masurka, masourka, Mmasourque, Or with z mazurka is à national Polish dance, also called a polka mazurka. The name is also applied to the air which accompanies the dance, written in three-four time, and in which the tonic is used as an invariable bass, or changes by octaves. The mazurka has a peculiar rhythm, in which the second beat is repeatedly well marked.
instead of s, A
ie. Annette’s first meeting with Lord Cavendale.
troublée : cf. note, p. 5 1. 8.
Valois: Philippe VI. was the first king of France of the
house of Valois, which occupied the throne for 261 years (1328-1589), during which period thirteen kings of this race received the crown.
containing the sources of the Loire, Dordogne, Lot, etc. It corresponded to the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Cantal, and part of Haute-Loire, The capital was Clermont. It was united to the French crown in 1610. Auvergnat (p. 46 |. 8): a
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native of Auvergne, The Auvergnat is usually à steadygoing, hard-working Man, but his love of economy sometimes leads him, as here, into miserly habits.
20. 72. restaurant : the first restaurant was opened at Paris in 176 5 by Boulanger, who took for his motto, * Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho laboratis, et €8o vos restaurabo.' Only a certain number of restaurants are open at night.
‘ 20. montagnes : à branch of the Cevennes mountains runs through Auvergne, These mountains are of volcanic structure, The chief peaks are Puy-de-Sancy, Plomb du Cantal, and Puy-de-Dôme. The word mont is applied to a single insulated eminence, the word Montagne to à range.
26. Monseigueur : à title of honour given to persons of eminence, such as bishops. Monseigneur de Paris is the Archbishop of Paris : Monseigneur de Blois, the Bishop of Blois, and so on. Annette's uncle was an archbishop,
» 31. de partir: Partir here means ‘to depart from life," ‘to die." De between two verbs, as here, Sometimes has the meaning of de ce que, vu que, Puisque. The idea is, ‘she envied them because they were going to die before her,’ or ‘seeing that they were," etc.
voilà que is sometimes used to show that a thi suddenly or unexpectedly, as here, equivalent to ‘ behold ! or ‘lo!’
SE 5, que, ‘however,’ must be followed by mood.
‘3. bénie : the verb #;r has two forms for t béni (fem. bénie) and bénis (fem. bénite). The latter form is SeneraNy used when the benediction has been performed by a priest, the former when Speaking of the blessing of God or men (not Priests). This distinction js merely arbitrary, and, as in this case, it is not always observed,
» 6. en ce Moment means ‘at this moment." on the other hand, signifies ‘in a moment the space of à moment.
9. boulevard Magenta : this Street, 1} miles in length, passes to the west of the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est.
i won by the French and
Sardinians over the Austrians in 1859. The Emperor Napoleon III. was nominally in command of the allies, but the victory was attributed to Marshal MacMahon, who was afterwards made Duke of Magenta. Magenta is à small place about 15 miles to the west Of Milan, which was subsequently occupied by the French.
> 10: Sainte-Ursaule : Ursula is said to hav
ng happens In this case it is
the subjunctive
he past Participle,
En un moment, ‘sS time,’ je, in
e been à British saint
Satnerett das eneiann ee
hé Date green dents nan ab mn RME M
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who, with other virgins, was put to death by an army of Huns near Cologne. She was Patroness of the old Sorbonne, and various religious establishments have been founded in her name, chiefly for the education of young girls.
21. 26. camarade was originally a military term. It has since come 10 mean one who lives the same kind of life, or has the same occupations as another, A compagnon is simply one who accompanies, without having necessarily the same occupations as another. Lix.—camarades de collège, compagnons de voyage. These two Sisters were therefore both camarades and compagnes. Compagnon P. 45 1 10 is used in the special sense of ‘ workman.
» 29. l’Intransigeant: the Intransigentists are a faction in France whose Parliamentary programme includes various radical reforms, and whose views are socialistic. L'/ntran-
sigeant is one of their organs. Itisa morning paper edited by Rochefort.
22. 3. Balaclava, or Balaklava, is a small scaport in the Crimea, 8 miles south-east of Sebastopol. It was the headquarters of the Allies in the Crimean war, and a series of engagements took place here between the Allies and the Russians on October 2-, 1854. The Russians took some redoubts from the Turks ar. : :! eatened the port. The attack was diverted by the charge sf the Heavy Brigade under General Scarlett. By a mistake, Lord Cardigan charged the Russian artillery With the Light Brigade, and routed the enemy's cavalry ; but of 670 men only 198 returned from the charge.
» 6. comme dit la Chanson, ‘as the saying goes.
23. 12. statistique, ‘statistics’; here used in a restricted sense for the description of a country with regard to its population, extent, natural resources, etc. Gottfried Achenwall (1719-72), a German scholar, Professor of Philosophy and of Law at the University of Güttingen, is usually regarded as the founder of the science of statistics and the inventor of the name.
» 13. Canton: in France the départements Aivided into arrondissements, the arrondissements into 5, and the cantons into communes.
» 16. gothique : ‘‘ Gothic’ is a term applied to a particukr kind of architecture. The term is a misnomer, as the style in no wise derives from the Goths, but it was eriginally bestowed by Italian Renaissance architects in scorn upon all forms of architecture following on the decay of the Roman styles, and was used as synonymous with ‘ barbarous.’ The name is now commonly applied to the European art of the Middle Ages, and more particularly to the various types of Pointed
architecture to the revival
centuries. The pointed arch the style, which in its great flexibility and necessary purposes is Worthy of as high the best Greek work.
23. 16. flamboyant : the name famboyant, as means characterised by wavy, and open work, as in the highly-florid style architecture which 1
pendicular.
