se laissait... gagner, allowed itself to be won over

1. 19. C'en était fait, see note to p. 19, 1, 5 : "it would hâve been ail over with, &c."

1. 31. d'un instaiit à T autre, at any moment. In November i8o(5, the Berlin Decrees had produced a practical state of blockade over nearly the whole coast of Europe.

P. 37, 1. 2. un 77ioyen, one way ; the stress is on îin. The only way of escape was to make the tour of the whole of Europe, i.e. to go round by Russia.

1. 14. soient arrivés, ^c, hâve gone so far as to consider spontaneous resolutions sinful : to make a scruple out of a thing = to be too scrupulous to do it.