Un temps fait à souhait, weather made to order

. Page 88. — i. la reine des nuits, i.e., the moon. 2. princesse géorgienne. The Georgia referred to is a province in southeastern Russia and is nearly identical with the ancient Iberia. It was annexed to Russia in 1801.

Page 8é« — I. sa Benjamine, his favorite daughter. Benjamin was the youngest of the sons of Jacob.

Page 85. — i. Que faisiez-yous au temps chaud? a quotation from the first of La Fontaine's fables, La Cigale et la Fourmi (the Locust and the Ant). Cf. page 78, note i.

2. 11 n'y a qu'une Dosia . . . prophète, cf. page 47, note 2.

Page 87« — i. la nuit porte conseil; a well known proverb. The English equivalent is : " to take counsel of one's pillow."

Page 88. — i. de tirer un petit bout de langue, /r^^mx/Âriè/M^M^/

the tip of her tongue.

Page 89« — i. franchit le Rubicon. Julius Caesar crossed the brook Rubicon in the year 49 b.c. and marched on Rome. Pompey fled and was next year decisively defeated at Pharsalus in Thessaly.