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Promener. Comp. démener, demeanour ; manier, mauage. Query manu s?

P. 23, 1. 28. La pièce enfumée — the smoky room.

P. 24, 1. 1. Dessous, on voyait entassées des Mlles de sapin dégrossies ; ses rares outils étaient accrochés au mur — beneath it v^eve seen heaped up blocks of rongh-liewn pine-wood ; his few tools were hung up on tlie -wall. Outils — L. utensilis. Cf. île — insula. N.B. Mur — from murus. Mûr, ripe, from maturus.

P. 24, 1. 7. Faire de pareils. Comp. ^n. v. 616. Heu !...tantuni superesse maris. See Ken. Gr. Gr, § 82, 7a. See, too, Farrar's Gr. Syntax, § 224.

P. 24, 1. S. Tanière— Menasse dérives it from toxinaria (?),abadger's hole. Comp. our expression, "a dog-hole." But see Brachet's Dict. Etym.

P. 24, 1. 10. Maiiquer de — to bo in want of ; manquer à, to fail in.

P. 24, 1. 18. Un flou, une finesse, iin accent — afiected terms used by connoisseiu's.

P. 24, 1. 19. Prix — L. pretium. Comp. Upaix, Epotium.

P. 24, 1. 21, C'est convenu — it's a bargain !

r. 24, 1. 2G. Qui vous achète àpremière main, etc. — ■wbo buys of you at first hand. I was obliged to hâve recourse to . . . who caused inquiries to be made by the police.

P. 25, 1. 4. On s'arrache, etc. — there's a scramble for, etc.

P. 25, 1. 15. Sculpter à trois pas du foyer où î'oîi cuit la choucroute — to be carving, three steps from the fire where they cook the sour-kraut ! Cf. p. 24, 1. 7, n. Choucroute, a préparation of fermented cabbage, in great request in pai'ts of France and Germany.

P. 25, 1. 29. Fils de famille — gentry.

P. 26, 1. 21. Elevé à l'écart et qxii ignore qu'ailleurs — brought up in obscurity, and who does not know that elsewhere, etc. Ailleurs — L. alioi'sum. — " D'ailleurs, amène une raison différente. De plus n'a rapport qu'au nombre. Outre cela amène une raison nouvelle." Dict. Acad.

P. 26, 1. 26. Vous avez beau être Allemand — German although you are. Vous avez beau dire — say what you like. J'ai beau l'attendre, il ne viendra, pas — it is vain for me to livait for him, he will not corne. Compare our expression, " It's ail very fine. It's very fine for me to wait."

P. 28, 1. 11. Cette sérénité qui s'épanchait autre fois en causeries — that contentment which aforetime was wont to display itseï in chat. Epancher — L. expandere. See p. 1, 1. 10, n.

P. 28, 1. 13. Elle n' égayait plus la moÂson — no longer enlivened the house.

P. 28, 1. 18. Tant qu'il n'avait vu que, etc. — as long as he had only seen . . . he had allowed himself to live like them, etc.

P. 28, 1. 28. Elle devait au chant — she owed to [her gift of] soug.

P. 28, 1. 30. En avait été ébloui! — the young sculptor had been dazzled by it.

P. 29, 1. 1. En vain je ne sais quel sage instinct lui disait tout bas de fuir ces tentations trompeuses — some wise instinct, I know not what, whispered to him, but in vain, to shun thèse deceitful temptations. Je ne sais quel. Comp. L. nescio quis.

P. 29, 1. 15. Se ressentir. Some French grammarians hâve attempted to draw a distinction between ressentir and se ressentir, saying the former can be used in a good or bad sensé, the latter in a bad sensé only. There is no foundation for any siich distinction.

P. 29, 1. 20. Elle ne balança plus — she no longer hesitated.

P. 29, 1. 21. Que Dieu pardonne ! Cf. Farrar's Gr. Syntax, § 177.

P. 30, 1. 8. Non de les ménager, etc. — not to husband them, but [rather] to subject himself to no privations.

P. 30, 1. 14. En même temps — at the same time. Même has fouisignifications. Ist. Denoting identity, corresponding with L. idem, as Ce sont les mêmes choses que j'ai viies ce matin. 2nd. Expressing similarity or resemblance. L. similis, as. Du berger et du roi les cendres sont les mêmes. 3rd. To indicate emphatically the L. ipse. J'ai vu vos sœurs, les voilà elles-mêmes. 4th. Signifying likewise, even. L. etiam. Les plus sages même le font.

P, 30, 1. 18. Les mains vides — with his hands empty. This phrase is in the nom. absolute.

P. 30, 1. 31. Et le sac de veau marin aux épaules — and^his seal-skin knapsack on his shoulders.

P. 31, 1. 4. Ni fatigue ni ennui — the conjunction ni joins two négative propositions. It is derived from nec, neque, and in old French appears as ne. Comp. prie, precor ; nie, nego.

P. 31, 1. 10. Enfouie— Ij. infodere. Cf. audio— ouïr, cf. p. 20, 1. 2,n.

P. 31, 1. 19. Avait laissé son adresse à — left his address u-ith ; like our phi-ase " leaving to", this expression is more commonly employed of one leaving a legacy to another.

P. 31, 1. 22. Se hâta donc, à peine arrivé, etc. — liastened therefore immediately on his arrivai, to présent himself at St. Lazarus Street, etc.

P. 32, 1. 23. A chercher un logement et une pension — in looking out for board and lodging; pension is fîrst the sum paid for maintenance, then in common parlance a boarding house.

P. 33, 1. 21. En vidant leur longs verres où moussait le Champagne — as tbey emptied their long glasses in which the Champagne was sparkling. Cf. p. 4, 1. 19, n.

P. 33, 1. 26. Iln'y a qu'eux-mêmes. It is only themselves whom they wUl not accuse, i.e., they will accuse every one but themselves.

P. 33, 1. 30. Ils doivent s'en prendre à eux seuls — they hâve only themselves to blâme for it. Se prendre à — to attack. 8' en prendre à quelqu'un — to lay the blâme of anything on one.

P. 33, 1. 31. C'était à eux. Cf. Farrar's Gr. Syntax, § 54, 6 and seq.

P. 34, 1. 6. C'est que tous tant que nous sommes — the fact is, that ail, however many we are, i.e., one and ail.

P. 34, 1. 18. Emprunter — L. impromutuare. Cf Brachet'sDici.Eij/m.

P. 35, 1. 21. Traduisant avec le ciseau — expressing with, etc.

P. 35, 1. 25. Pareil à l'oiseau libre — like the free bird. Pareil à. In gênerai, ail adjectives which dénote aptness, fitness, inclination, ease, readiness, or any habit of the mind, are followed by « before the noun which they govern. Oiseau, from avis, avicella, aucella. Comp. the German vôgel, and see p. 13, 1. 17, n.

P. 35, 1. 27. On ne lui laissait plus qu'un cercle fixe, etc. — Note that

the gênerai meaning of oie plus is "no more." As to

ne que, cf. p. 4, 1. 4, n, then compare the provincialism

" nothing more only ," and the difiiculty of the passage wiU vanish.

P. 36, 1. 24. S'aperçut de l'étonnement. Cf. Farrar's Gr. Syntax, § 45.

P. 37. 1. 13. Les feuilletons — at the bottom of the first page in a French newspaper there is often a portion set apart for some work of fiction or criticism, which is thu:? dealt out to the public in small daily doses ; this is called the feuilleton. Many of the most remai-kable works in Fi'ench literature hâve appeared in this form.

P. 37, 1. 29. Sous peu. Comp. Sub Lœc dicta ad genua MarceUi

procubuerunt, Liv.25, 7 quo deinde sub ipso Ecce volât —^n.