à peu près ... de ÎAVaiyjust enough to keepfrom starving

Pagre 29« — I. lui . . . il, the disjunctive pronoun and the répétition of the conjunctive pronoun subject are used for emphasis.

Pa^e 80. — I. pauvrement, in a spirit of humility. Lemaitre, in the French édition of this work, gives the following foot-note to this sentence: "Pascal (vie de Biaise Pascal^ par Mme Périer). J 'étends un peu le sens que Pascal donnait à ce mot.'* — Pascal (1623- 1662) was a celebrated French geometrician, philosopher and writer ; Mme Périer was Pascal's sister.