II. As an adverb, it is found

(1 .) Modifying an adjective or part.

(2.) In the phrase à demi, équivalent to our " by half," "by halves."

P. 85, 1. 21. Que les 2^lus profondes ornières lui imprimaient éipeine un léger balancement — tliat the deepest ruts scarcely caused any perceptible shaking. Les 2)lus jjrofondes. The superlative is formed by prefixing the art. le, la, les, to the comp., according to the gender of the noun. Ornières — wheel ruts. L. orbita.

P. 85, 1. 27. N'cst-ce-que cela ? Cf. p. 84, 1. 3, n.

r. 86, 1. 4. Mais je ne veux point faire un plus mauvais marché —but I do not wish to make a worse bargain. Blarché — marketbargain. L. merx.

P. 86, 1. 11. Aussi . . . accepta-t-il le marché . . . se trouva-t-il. After aussi, peut-être, aussi bien, the verb frequently assumes the interrogati%'e form.

1'. 86, 1. 14. Sans que l'on parût avoir chance d'en sortir, etc. — -without their seeming to hâve a chauce of getting out of them for a long time. De longtemps — " for a long time," i.e., after a long time, reckoning from the présent moment. " The signification of the point of beginning being lost in that of the time in gênerai" (Zumpt's L. Gr. § 308). See, too, d' aujourd'hui, p. 97, 1. 12.

P. 86, 1. 15. Soif — L. sitis. Com.-p. juif , judœus ; vœuf, viduus.

P. 86, 1. 31. S'épouvanter — L. expavesco. InoldFrench the word assumes the forms espaventcr, espoenter, espavanter, etc.

P. 87, 1. 14. Troublé— adj., troubled, crowded, dim. L. turbidus.

P. 87, 1. 18. Les trois compannes de route que la fatalité lui avait envoyées — thethree travelling companions -R-hom fate had sent him. Envoyées, cf p. 84, 1. 14, n. : so, too, faits. " Quas fatum habuerat missas " (E.)

P. 87, 1. 21. Manchot — one armed. L. mancus.

P. 87, 1. 29. Ce sont des aigrefines — they are sharpers. Ce sont. Ce is used before être instead of the pronouns il, elle, ils, elles, in référence to a noun, singular or plural, antecedently named. Cf p. 1, 1. 2.

P. 87, 1. 16. Paresse — L. pigritia. For the change of i and a, comp. sans, sine ; langue, lingua.

P. 88, 1. 12. Croyes vous qu'il jouisse — leaves the ansvrer uncertain. If instead of the subjunct. the indic. were used, the sonse would be, " Of course you do not believe he enjoys." As it stands, the meaning is, " I don't know what you think on the point, as to whether he does or does not.''

P. 88, 1. 26. ATais il en est de. etc. — but it is with certain counsels as with, etc. Cf p. 10, 1. 16, and p. 11, L 25.

P. 88, 1. 30. Dès le lendemain — on the next day. Lit., " starting from the next daj'." Dès — de — ex, like dans — de— intus. Compare the note on p. 86, 1. 14.

L'OXCLE D'AilEKIQUE.

89,1.4. Xe peut faise soupçonner — can give one no idea. Conversation and poetry admit of je peux, in the près, of the indicative ; but we must say inten-ogatively puisje .' and not peu.vje / We may say je ne puis, and je ne puis pas ; the first expression implies obstacle, difficulty ; the second, total impossibility.

P. 89, 1. 19. Près de s'accomplir — about to be accomplished. Près de marks proximity of place 'or time, and answers to the L. prope. Prêt à prepared for — L. paratus. On peut-être près de mourir, sans être prêt à mourir.

P. 89, 1. 22. Avait subi de rudes épreuves — bad endured some bard trials.

P. 89, 1. 11. Ainsi qu'il le disait lui-même— as be bimself said, as be espressed it.

P. 89, 1. 14. Bien qu'elle ne renfermât rien de précis— &ïh.owgh. it contained notbing précise.

P. 89, 1. 15. Qui avait de la lecture. P. 78,1. 1, n.

P. 91, 1. 4. La tête — for sa tête, bis bead. Tbe art. is used instead of tbe poss. pron., wbenthe sensé clearlyindicates tbe possessor. Comp. K. Gr. Gr. § 69 (2) b. Farrar's Gr. Syntax, § 15.

P. 91, 1. 7. Ils ont eu leau, etc. Cf. p. 26, 1. 26, n.

P. 91, 1. 10. Peste à savoir s'il a envie de revenir — it remains to be kuown if be wisbes to return. See p. 21, 1. 10, n.

P. 91, 1. 19. J'espère lien que non — I sincerely bope not.

P. 91. 1. 24. La recette de ses fermes — tbe receiversbip of bis rents.

P. 92, 1. 1. Il n'y a pas à se tromper— it is not to be mistaken; tbere is no room for mistake.

P. 92, 1. 6. Bien tout préparé — prepared everytbing properly.

P. 92, 1. 17. Migeotait — a quasi slang word — was fi'izzling.

p. 92, 1. 21. Mettre le couvert — to lay tbe clotb.

P. 92, 1. 23. En plaçant au haut bout — placing at tbe upper end of tbe table.

P. 92, 1. 2. Qui faisait le guet — wbo was on tbe look out.

P. 93, 1. 1. Encadré dans la haie de la porte, etc. — lit., framed in tbe aperture of tbe suddenly opened door, i.e., standing in tbe doorway as a picture in a fi'ame.

P. 93, 1. 4. Singe — L. simia. Comp. vendange, vendimia ; songe, somnium.

P. 93, 1. 9. Est-ce qu'on a peur de — are you afraid of.

P. 93, 1. 20. Qu'il y a une bonne bordée ci courir — tbat tbere is a long tack to make (cf. 147, 1. 24, and p. 154, 1. 16); i.e., a long distance to go.

P. Oi, 1. 17. Où il y a pas vial, etc. — where there's no bad [assortment] of, etc.

P. 94, 1. 30. Bon gré mal gré — wliether they would or no.

P. 95, 1. 6. Aussitôt dépensée que re(;ue — spent as soon as received.

P, 96, 1. 10. TJn grain hlanc — a white squall.

P. 96, 1. 24. Poin- leur faire part de — to make tliem acquainted ■with.

P. 97, 1. 1. A quoi pensez-vous ? — what are you thinking about ? Comp. the vulgarism, " What are you thinking on ? " As an interrog. pron., quoi is frequently used -with. a prep., and applies to things only.

P. 97, 1. 7. Celui-ci — this one — the latter — points out an object or person previoiisly mentioned.

P. 98, 1. 7. Pour lui pendre la crémaillère — to give bim a hoiisewarming. Crémaillère is the iron chain to which the kettle is attached in a French peasant's kitchen, to prevent it from upsetting. The dérivation of the elder lexicographers, from "cremai'e" on the one hand, or Kpî/uLaaôai on the other, is probably wrong. More probably the word is to be referred to a Celtic original. See Brachet and comp. "Wedgwood, sub. voc. '"crook."

P. 98, 1. 14. Lui avait toujours soitri — had always been grateful to her. Lit., had always smiled upon her.

P. 98, 1. 26. Pas vrai, for n'est-il pas vrai — it is true, is it not ?

P. 99, 1. 10. Il s'agit— you refer to. Impers, verb, il s'agit, il s'agissait, il s'agira.

P. 99, 1. 12. Tous l'avez dit — you hâve said it— exactly so.

P. 99, 1. 15. Je nage à rendre des %yoints aux marsouins — I swim well enough to give odds to the porpoises.

P. 99, 1. 17. Un coup d'épaule— a. shove with my shoulder, i.e., to help him while swimming. Epaule — Spatula.

P. 100, 1. 10. A ])lusieurs reprises — several times, over and over again,

P. 100, 1. 24. Bien aussi pauvre qu'il était parti— vQaRj as poor as he had set out. Cf. p, 7, 1. 7, n,

P. loi, 1. 4. Et l'entourèrent, à l'envi, etc. — and vied with one anotherinheapinguponhira [surrounding him with] the most affectiouate attentions.

194 XOTES.

p. 101, 1. 22. C'est jouer de malheur ! — that is unfortunate. De malheur is used adverbially, like "de integro," " de industria," etc , in Latin.

P. loi, 1. 23. S'était justement rappelé. Keflective verbs take être in their couip. tenses, and must be translated in English as if they were comi^ounded with avoir. Cf. Eve and Baudiss, p. 62.

P. 102, 1. 14. Torts, from the Latin tortum — a wi-ong, i.e., the twisted tbing. Comp. our " wrong" froni " wring" — Lat. pravus, and tbe opposite, droit, right — so "to icrest judgment."

LE GAEDIEN DU VIEUX PHAEE.

P. 103, 1. 4. Et que semblent relier, etc. — and ■wbicli tliousands of breakers seem to be binding togetber.

P. 103, 1. 9. Ne peut reconnaître les écueils qu'au moment où il n'est plus temps de les éviter — cannot discover the rocks till it is too late to avoid them. Ecueils — L. scopulum.

P. 103, 1. 12. Caboteurs. Cabotage, the coasting trade ; cahotier, the ship ; caboteur, the sailor.

P. 103, 1. 20. Qui voletaient alentour, etc. — which tised to hover aroLindjSendingforththeirshrill cries. Alentour,!, q. àl'entour.

P. 104, 1. 2. Si étroite qu' elle fût. See p. 1, 1. 14, n.

P. 104, 1. 5. Jean Bart. One of the few naval heroes of France, and one whose name is, perhaps, more renowned than any. He was the son of afisherman at Dunkerqiie, and was ennobled by Louis XIV for his services in 1693. See Macaulay's Hist., vol. iv (1855), ch. xix, p. 293.

P. 104, 1. 11. Mettre à la voile — to set sail. Patron, our term "ski2)2)er,", the man in charge of any small craft.

P. 104, 1. Iv. Cingler. In Spanish, singlar; Ger., segeln; Eng., sail. In old French it is spelt singler.

P. 104, 1. 19. La barre— the tiUer.

P. 104, 1. 21. Chauve — L. calvns. Comp. chaux— ca.\x, chaud — calidus, etc.

P. 104, 1. 28. Canonnière — a "pinnace."

P. 104, 1. 29. A faire côte — to run ashore.

P. 104, 1. 30. Sombré, gone down, foundered. L. L. subumbrare, Brachet.

P. 105, 1. 1. Linceul — shroud. L. linteoluin.

P. 105, 1. 4. Elle lui valut — it obtainecl for him ; lit., it was u-ortli to Mm.

P. 105, 1. 18. Vatel was a cook who committed suicide, because, on occasion of a Festival at Chantilly, in 1671, the fisb. came too late. (E.)

P. 105, 1. 26. Tout au plus — at the most.

P. 106, 1. 9. C'était de plus une de ces médiocrités universelles, etc. — he was, moreover, one of those commonplace men who know everything, and who corne to be jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

P. 106, 1. 20. Fil philosophe et sous forme de consolation — as a philosopher, and by way of consolation. Après s'être (. . .) et {après) avoir . . .

P. 106, 1. 24. D'abord il ne faut pas oublier — in the first place, we must not forget. Falloir is always impersonal, and consequently admits of no other subject than the pronoun il; whereas the English verb must may take any noun or pronoun for its subject.

P. 106, 1. 28. Mais f en connais qui n'en ont pas — but I know some who hâve none.

P. 107, 1. 11. Elle aura vécu comme les oiseaux du ciel, etc. — she will hâve lived [i.e., when she dies] like the birds of the air on her share of your pay, for you've not spared yourself, either for her or her children — or — you've not grudged her or her chiidren anything. Bien ne lui coûte — he spares nothing.

P. i 07, 1. 28. Penser — an exclamation : And to think of one's never, etc. Comp. p. 25, 1.15: Sculpter à trois pas du foyer, etc.; and 114, 1. 25, penser qu'une créati'.re de son sexe, etc. At times this use of the infin. almost becomes équivalent to the imperat. Compare the coi'responding usage of the infin. in Lat., e.g., "mené desistere victam," and see p. 24, 1. 7, n. Au juste — exactly.

P. 108, 1.7. Cf. p. 21,1. 10, n.

P. 108, 1. 25. Susceptible d'être fléchi — capable of being nioved [by our prayers].

P. 108, 1. 30. Qui vont à tous les discours — which suit ail conversations.

P. 109, 1. 2. La pô.lotte. The termination otte is a diminutive, as in Charlotte ; it is of course a féminine suffix.

P. 109, 1. 8. Four discuter. Cf. p. 55, 1. 26, n.

P. 109, 1. 10. N'était point dlieureuse venue — a proverbial expression, " had not been born under a lucky star."

P. 109, 1. 14. Fermés. "Wliy in the plural ? — Agreeing with cœur and esprit.

P. 109, 1. 15. Pour qu'il la vit. Cf. p. 14, 1. 20, n.

P. 109, 1. 24. Qui avait semblé dégénérer, etc. — wLicli seemed to hâve degenerated into stupor. Abrutissement — L. brutus.

P. 110, 1. 14. Dans les eaux, etc. — near the bisquine's berth. Etre dans les eaux d'un vaisseau — to be in the wake of a ship.

P. 110, 1. 16. Une amarre frappée au bec de la jetée — ahawser lashed to the head of the jetty.

P. 110, 1. 17. Criez-leur de larguer — call to them to slacken it. In nautical language larguer — to dowse a rope.

P. 110, 1. 20. Le plus honnête d'entre eux ne se baisserait pas pour empêcher dix ponantais de se noyer — the best among them would not stoop to hinder ten Westerns from di-owning. Ponant, or ponent, the west : a term used to distinguish the sailors of the Atlantic from those of the Mediterranean.

P. 110,1.28. Jaunîdre. The termination -af rc answers to our -îs7i, yellow'-ish, blue-ish, etc. Comp. L. surdaster, "deaf-ish"; la lisse, "the rail''.

P. 110, 1. 31, Gaffe— Ei boat-hook.

P. 111, 1. 2. Et le nom lui va — and the name suits him. The verb aller forms many idiomatical expressions, as — le commerce ne va plus, trade is duU; au, pis aller, at the worst; cela s'en va fait — that is almost done ; on le hô.tera bien d'aller — he will be obliged to do his duty, etc.

P. 111, 1. 7. Lever la main — take your oath. Comp. II. iii, 318. Kaoî &^T]pi}(raPTO, 6eo7cn 5è xeîpas àvéax^"-

P. 111, 1. 21. Pas moins — a vulgarism — " nevertheless."

P. 111, 1. 23. A preuve le petit Abdon, etc. — witness that little A. whom he forced to fight him two years ago, and who has spun his winding sheet [for himself] since. Battre, to beat; se battre, to fight. Filer is used in many idioms, the original sensé is to spin ; but in its various usages the primary meaning is scarcely to be recognised; thus, le chat file — the catpurs (i.e., makes a noise like a spinning-wheel) ; filer sur les ancres — to pay out more cable. See helow— file ton nœud.

P. 111, 1. 28. Observe that the nest few lines are not strictly grammatical. The talk of the sailor is represented. ça is a contraction for cela.

P. 112, 1. 3. Bossoir — the bow of a vessel.

P. 112, 1. 20. Au, radoub — under repaii%

P. 112, 1. 22. Est-ce que cela te regarde — what business is that of yours ? or, rather, Does that concern you ? Pêcheur, fisher — L. piscator; ;pécheur, sinner, peccatum.

P. 112, 1. 28. File ton nœud, marin d'eau douce, etc. — be off with you, you freshwater sailor, with your tub of a boat. Lit., your kneading-trough shaped Uke a boat.

P. 113, 1. 5. Amène la taille vent — strike the mainsail.

P. 114, 1. 6. De sa coiffe trouée sortaient des mèches éparses de cheveux noirs qui faisaient encore ressortir sa pâleur — from her ragged hood were straying out shaggy tangles of black haïr, •which brought out her paleness still more strikinglv.

P. 114, 1. 11. C'était seulement à l'examen, etc. — It was only when you came to examine her. Je ne sais quel idiotisme, etc. — an indescribable bewilderment mingled with an expression of obstinate cunning. Cf. p. 29, 1. 2.

P. 115, 1. 1. Plissé — L. plicare. For the change of c into ss compare saiissaie, salicetum ; poussin, pullicenus, and see Brachet s. V. agencer.

P. 115, 1. 3. Souder, solidare; soudre, solvere.

P. 116, 1. 2. Angoisse — L. angustia. Cf. /oison, fusio.

P. 117, 1. 3. Fallût-il y mettre mes économies de l'année — though it were necessary to give my year's savings for it. Comp. .^n. vi, 30. Tu quoque magnam Pai'tem opère in tanto sineret dolor Icare haberes.

P. 118, 1. 5. Epargnés par de-mi-sous sur le cri, etc. — saved by farthings [wrung] from the cry of my hunger and the sweat of my body.

P. 118, 1. 8. Une messe d'allégeance en l'intention de Dona — a supplicatory mass for Dona's benefit.

P. 120, 1. 17. Pour décider — to décide -what they would do with G.

P. 120, 1. 26. Engagèrent — tried to persuade,

P. 120, 1. 27. Pétrir la glaise aux piperies — to knead the clay at the pipe Works. For glaise see Brachet.

P. 122, 1. 1. Qui a conservé le sentiment de solidarité dans la famille — who hâve kept up tlie feoling of family unity ; orratlier, the oneness of a family.

P. 122, 1. 2. Flétrissure — L. flacceo. For the change of c into t compare carcer — -charire. Brachet calls this latter instance a " changement tout-à-fait isolé", which it certainly is not.

P. 122, 1. 3. N'est pas de garde facile — is no easy keeping. Gen. quai , or, as Madvig calls it, "descriptive genitive".

P. 123, 1. 4— ça veut du temps — that requires time.

P. 123, 1. 22. Et pour lors bon soir — and then good bye to you.

P. 123, 1. 31. S'en défaire ainsi à commandement — rid oneself of her thus to order.

P. 126, 1. 2. iarcMi^-larceny. L. latrocinium.

P. 126, 1. 7. Se dressait maintenant à une portée de mousquet, etc. — stood now a musket shot from the reach of the highest tides.

P. 126, 1. 15. Faisaient fondre, etc. — were in the habit of nielting the tar iTsed for caulking the seams of the vessels which had been strained in theLr voyage.

P. 126, 1. 24. Les trois Provençaux venaient d'achever la bouillabaisse qui leur avait servi de souper — the three Provençals had just finished the bouillabaisse which had served them for supper. Bouillabaisse — hotchpotch. Mr. Thackeray tells us what it is more particularly : —

" The bouillabaisse a noble dish is, —

A sort of soup, or broth, or brew.

Or hotchpotch of ail sorts of fishes,

That Greenwich ncver could ootdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saifern.

Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace : Ail thèse you eat at Terré's tavern.

In that one dish of bouillabaisse."

P. 127, 1. 24. Sauf je ne sais quelle. Cf. x>. 29, 1. 1, n.

P. 127, 1. 30. Bercée sur le sein de cette grande nourrice commune — cradled on the bosom of this great common nurse.

P, 128, 1. 7. Loin de s'être affaibli à la longue — far from being weakened by lapse of time.

P. 129, 1. 1. Le jour des Rameaux — Palm Sunday. Buis — L. buxus. So cuisse, coxa; suie, succus.

P. 129, 1. 2. Beverdies — spring-tides.

P. 129, 1. 5. Elle l'étala devant elle, et couchée sur quelques hrins de varech desséchés — she laid it out befox'e her, and lying down on. some pièces of di'ied seaweed. •

P. 129, 1. 26. Si bien qu'une coïncidence, etc. — 30 thoroiighly that a coïncidence [viz., of lier losing Dona, and liaving been set to work] associated the image of Dona, etc. The consécutive sentence in French is constructed with the adverbs, si, tellement, tant, jusque-là, si bien (answering to the Latin sic, ita, tam, eo, adeo, usque eo), the consécutive clause being introduced by que (ansv?ering to the Latin ut), but whereas in Latin the verb after "ut consécutive" is always in the subjunctive mood, in French the verb after que consécutive is in the indicative.

P, 130, 1. 6. Une jparoi de médiocre épaisseur séparait sa retraite de l'enfoncement fréquenté par les caboteurs — a wall of moderate thickness separated herretreat from the cavern frequented by the coasters. Paroi — L. paries.

P. 130, 1. 19. Que le tonnerre. Cf. p. 29, 1. 21, n.

P. 131, 1. 7. Prenne sur les nefs — grates against one's nerves; goes against the grain.

P. 181, I. 25. Be l'accent. Cf. p. 78, 1. 1, n.

P. 131, 1. 29. En conséguence— accordingly.

P. 132, 1. 8. Ils ne l'auront pas volé — serve them right.

P. 132, 1. 23. Il paraîtrait même que toiis les gens, etc. — it would even seem that every one in the port was informed, and that they were waiting at the door to seo the carpenter's cudgel at work. Trigtie— L. ridica(?). Bnt note grenouille — L. ranuncula.

P. 133, 1. 30. Grande largue— at fuU sail.

P. 134, 1. 5. Je serre l'écoute, et je laisse porter, etc. — Thèse are ail sea terms. Notice the "historié 2Dresent", as in L. and G., " I hauled in the sheet and bore down on the boat." Serrer le vent — to steer towindward. Serrer des voiles — to shorten sail. Larguer l'écoute — to let go the sheet. Avoir des écoutes larges — to saU under press of canvas.

P. 134, 1. 22. Un chalandoux ponantais de moins — an Atlantic " tub" the less. Chalandoux, from. chaland, a sort of lighter.

P. 135, 1. 2. Tu sais que je ne vaux rien — you know I don't stick at trifles. Lit., l'm not worth anything.

P. 135, 1. 4. Veille au grain et tiens ta langue à la cape — look out for squalls, and "lay to" with your tongue.

P. 135, 1. 15. Une volonté de réflexion — an exertion of thought.

P. 136, 1. 19. 0)1 voyait se dessiner, etc. — The outline of the bisquine, turned upon lier side, could be recognised in the gloom. " Silho^^ette — a profile, so called from M. de Silhouette, a finance minister under Louis XV., who was notorious for his parsimony." — Diez. Fréta l'oreille — listened.

P. 136, 1. 24. Barre du gouvernail — the helm.

P. 138,1. 15. Suivant la couture récemment calfatée — running along the freshly caulked seam.

P. 139. 1. 9. C'est-à-dire qu'il faut fier son nœud — you niean, we must be ofF. Cf. p. 111, 1. 24, n.

P. 139, 1. 23. Et le ^patron mit le cap sur le vieux phare — and the skipper turned his head towards the old lighthouse. Cap — the head or prow of a shijî. Porter le cap sur l'ennemi — to bear towards the enemy. Oh est le cap — liow goes the wind ? Hissées, "hoised". Cf. Acts xxvii, 40. Wright's Bible Word Book, sub TOC.

P. 140, 1. 10. Etaient enfumés dans leur entrepont comme des renards dans Zenrs terriers — stifled in their 'tween decks, like foxes in their holes. Pont, the deck of a ship. Premier j^ont, the lower gun deck. Second pont, the iipper deck of a two-decker. Pont entier, a deck flush fore and aft. Etaient — comp. Virgil, G. il, 133 :

" Et si non alium late jactaret odorem Laurus erat."

P. 140, 1. 19. Il doit être dans la braise comme le poisson dans la mer — he uiust be [as much at home] in a blaze, as a fish in the sea. Comp. Eng. "brase, braser, brasil," in Wedgwood, Dict. Etym.

P. 141, 1. 26. Sur V extrémité de l'tlot opposé à la cale de débarquement— on the extremity of the islet, opposite the creek where Jie was to land. Cale, a sea-term, a cove or creek. Les corsaires se cachent dans des cales pour surprendre les petits vaisseaux— the corsaii's conceal themselves in creeks, to seize upon small vessels. Grand cale, fond de cale — the hold. La cale à Veau — 'the fore-hold. Cale de constr^lction — stocks. Donner la grande cale à un matelot — to duck a sailor — to pitch him from the top-mast into the sea.

P. 142, 1. 12. Difficulté de parole — difficulty of expressing himself.

P. 142, 1. 22. Folles vagues dansant sur les récifs — mad waves dancing on the reefs. Cf. p. 4, 1. 2, n.

P. 143, 1. 5. Poussés par la houle — borne along by the current.

P. 144, 1.8. Aiselle—axiHa..

P. 144, 1. 11. Cinglaient en tous sens — which were sailino^ in ail directions. So. le cube est une figure solide carrée de tous sens — • the cube is a solid figure four square every way.

P. 144, 1. 13. Une longue-vue, toujours braquée sur le parapet de pier.e — a télescope always fixed on the stone parapet.

P. 144, 1. 17. Il voyait se croiser les mille liens, etc. — he saw the intercrossings of those thousand bonds of interest or necessity which unité distant people together spite of the storms and the depths.

P. 144, 1. 23. Carrefour, etc. — passage between two worlds.

P. 144, 1. 25. Promené sa longue-vue — swept round his télescope — Cf. p. 23, 1. 27, n.

P. 144, 1. 29. D'instants en instants — kept increasing every instant. Livy V., 48, § 6, exercitus...die))!, de die prospectans.

P. 145, 1. 16. Et grimpant le long de la pente abrupte que les réunissait à l'îlot — n.Tid clambering along the steep slope that joined them to the islets. Pente — declivity. La pente de la colline — the brow of the hill ; sometimes used figurativcly. Il a peu de pente à l'étude — he has little inclination to study.

P. 146, 1. 12. Ouvrant le couteau retenu à sa boutonnière par une tresse de cuir, il le glissa entre les douvelles noircies — opening the knife attached to his button-hole by a leathern thong, he slipped it in between the blackened staves,

P. 146, 1. 19. Avarie — a technical term, meaning "damage at sea." It is derived from a Scandinavian word, haf — the sea.

P. 146, 1. 27. Toutes les rides de son visage — ail the furrows of his face.

P. 147, 1. 13. La voilure aiix lueurs du soir- — the sails in the evening twilight.

P. 147, 1. 17. Brises carabinées — stiff breezes.

P. 147, 1. 21. La clarté terne d'une nuit à la fois sans nuages et sans étoiles — the murky gloom of a night at once without clouds and without stars.

P. 147, 1. 24. Bord sur bord — tack after tack [bord à bord — alongside].

p. 148, 1. 1. Hâblerie de chasseurs racontant que des braconniers — that old hunter's story which tells how certain poachers, etc., etc. Hôblerie — any mei"e exaggerated talk without any truth in it. The word is derived from " fabula", by the change of / into h, so common in Spanish, and to be noticed in hors, foras hors mis, foras missum. [For this change of / and h in English, see Koch's JJistor. Gram. der Engl. Sprache, vol. 1, § 1S2.]

P. 149, 1. 9. Passait sa quille rapide — her rapid keel was passing. Observe the use of the imperlect tense.

P. 149, 1. 15. Que ses vœux avaient été exaucés — that her prayers had been heard.

P. 151, 1. 2. Laissé ses fonds de culottes — a vulgarism — left his leavings on our rocks.

P. 151, 1 8. Tu ne te doutes pas de tout, etc. — you would not believe ail that the sea, etc. Comp. J^n. 9, 191 :

" Percipe porro quid dubitem."

P. 151, 1. 10. Il ne se passait guère de mois — scarcely a nionth used to pass. Cf. p. 2, 1. 11, n.

P. 151, 1. 14. Quand ils ne péchaient point autre chose — when they did not ôsh up anything else. Péchaient — fished up fi'om. Obs., Pécher, peccare — to sin; pécher, piscare— to fish.

P. 151, 1. 16. Leur a brûlé une /erwie— has taken away their living from them.

P. loi, 1. 18. La tête à demi passée en dehors de la fenêtre — her head half ont of the window. Cf. p. 85, 1. 20, n.

P. 151, 1. 30. Il a fini par monter d'un cran, etc. The expression is in sailor language — he has succeeded in getting one point nearer to the wind.

P. 152, 1. 1. Fanal — beacon. Faire fanal — to carry the light. Fanal de poupe — the quarter lanthorn.

P. 152, 1. 5. Est-ce que la brise ne l'affale pas sur la chaussée — is not the gale blowiug her on the reef ?

P. 152, 1. 8. S'ils ont doublé les brisants pour donner dans la passe — • if they hâve doubled the breakers to run into the passage. Donner (sea term), to incline, to heel. Donner dedans — to run right in. Donner à la côte — to run aground.

p. 153, 1. 27. n laissa arriver, etc. — thèse are sea terms : transi., he bore up a second time in order to shape his course once more.

P. 154, 1. 16. Et voulut virer de hord — and wished to put about sliip. Cf. p. 147, 1. 24, n. Virer axi cabestan— to heave the capstern. Virer à pié — to heave short. licer — to tum, to veer. Bord is also a sea term — ship, shipboard, as Vaisseau de bas bord — a galley; faire un bord, to make a tack.

P. 154, 1. 26. Sa carène venait de rencontrer un rocher à fleur d'eau — its keel had just run against a rock flush with the water.

P. 155, 1. 17. A tâtons. Cf. p. 52, 1. 24, n.

P. 155, 1. 19. Les vagues tourbillonnaient sur les crêtes de l'écueil, jouant avec quelques épaves qu'elles montraient et dérobaient tour à tour — the waves were eddying over the tops of the reef, sporting with some fi-agments of wreck, which they alternately laid bare and hid again.

P. 156, 1. 1. Un point noir, etc. — a black spot seemed tobe staining the foam, and to be borne along by the surf that was rushing between the rocks. Obs., tô.che — a task ; tache — a stain.

P. 1 56, 1. 30. Le détacher du débris— to loosen his hold on the fragment of wreck.

P. 157, 1. 25. Faillit lui être. L. paulum aberat quin. Cf. p. 13, 1. 13, n.

P. 158, 1. 18. n en est qui, etc. — there are some which, soto speak, are peculiai- to certain professions ; lit., " come out of certain professions."

P. 158, 1. 21. Sentinelles perdues des écueils — outposts of the crao-s The term is boiTowed from military matters. Compare the similar phrase. Les enfants perdus — the forlorn hope.

P. 159, 1. 2. Le Vengeur. Unfortunately the story of the "Vengeur" has been proved to be untrue. Cf. Carlyle's Miscell., vol. iv, p. 209. Fraser' s Mag., 115.

P. 160, 1. 2. Qu'il montait — which he had the command of.

P. 160, 1. 8. Les lois plus élevés — the higher laws of human morality which forbade his punishing himself with his own hands. Un avertissement — " a call to him."

P. 160, 1. 16. Que de la discuter — than to argue about it.

p. 160, 1. 24. Feuilles à titres imprimés — sheets [of paper] with printed headmgs.

P. 161, 1. 1. You are not intended to take the following letter as a model of epistolary style.

P. 102, ]. 13. Pointa une voile blanche — a wliite sail dotted the horizon. Pol')iter is used of a bird soaring so high as to be a mère speck (point).

P. J63, 1. 4. Qui se cotisèrent — who contributed (quctum).

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