gens, hère, attendants

24-25. dès qu'il eut passé ; why is the past antcrior better hère than the pluperfect ?

25, il ne laissa pas de ; ' ne pas laisser de, ' word for word — 'not to desist frora,' may be rendered by an adverb — Ile nevertheless (or, nonc the less) contimicd his way.

28. glacer de, lit. to chill with (see note to p. 6, 1. 21), in other words — to makc one's hlood run cold vnth, or, to scnd a chill ihrough.

30. ce n'étaient que ; the construction is the same as in note to p. 2, 1. 4.