la promise ^ la fiancée

Pag-e 68. — i. rentrez le ventre; literally: "draw in your stomach"; freely: keep your alignmettt ; stand up straight.

2. c'est pas . . . =1 ce n'est pas ... It is not required in the military instructions .

3. Que voulez-vous! Supply: que f y fasse. Translate: J cannât help it.

4. Soyez donc ! . . . Ho7v can one be! . . . Page 69. — i. à eux, of their own.

Page 70. — I. Il venait aux lieutenants . . . ^= les lieutenants prononçaient . . .

2. à l'adresse du voisin, intended for ; destined to inipress or a^ve the other party.

3. grazie tante. Italian words meaning: "thank you so much, or very much."

4. chauvin (derived from the name of Nicolas Chauvin, a brave soldier of the First Republic and the First Empire), chauvinist, ultra patriot. The abstract noun is le chauvinisme. Cf. English

jingo, jingoism .

Page 71. — I. faisant bouillir la soupe, preparing their meal.