II. se doutant, suspecting. See p

1. 19. je m'' y trouvais, àfc, the place suited me wonderfiilly well. The dictionnaire de tacadémie (1694) spells à merveilles. "Je lui trouve un bon médecin... dont il se trouvera à merveilles" (Mme de Sévigné.)

1. 25. à sa rencontre, to meet her ; literally, to her encounter.

1. 30. le surcroît, àr'c., the aggravated form of persécution,

P. 5,1. I. à la censure. See above, p. 3, 1. 23. During the first empire the censorship of the press was very severely carried out ; each daily paper was under the supervision of a censor paid out of the funds of the journal itself.

1. 3. m'en tenant à la lettre, relying on the literal meaning of Augustus' letter. m^en tenant mesins literally holding on, adhering.

1. 4. Auguste, her son, Baron Auguste de Staël (1790 — 1827), devoted his time to agriculture and to philanthropie works.

1. 9. qi^on me faisait = qt^ on faisait à moi. Were concealing from me.

1. 20. me prit Vâme=prit mon âme. Discouraged me grievously. The definite article is often used with the personal pronoun, instead of the possessive pronoun.

1. 26. mis au pilon, destroyed. pilon, a pestle; verb, piler, to pound small (L. pilare).