une gargote : A low-class eating-house

43.7. il eut un ami : A good example of the exact use of the past historic : ' he got, found, a friend.'

43.8. limousin: A native of Limoges or its neighbourhood. Men

from those parts are so numerous in the building trade that * le limousin ' is used as a common désignation for a mason or his labourer, 43.9. fuyait : Avoided, did not patronize.