j'avais beau : cf. note on vi

392. l'Angelus. A bell rung morning, noon, and night, every day, ' as a bidding to the people, to the sick in bed and to the healthy, to those at home and to those abroad, that they should, as the sound floated through the villages — the maiden in her cottage, and the labourer in the field — kneel and recite the allotted prayer, Angélus Do?nini) etc.' Hence it was called the Angélus Bell.

401. mon parti était pris, My mind was made up (lit. my décision was taken).

446. craindre qu'on me poursuivît. After verbs of fearing ne is used in French : ' Je crains qu'il ne vienne ' (Timeo ne veniat), I fear he will corne. But if the principal clause is itself a négative one (as hère), ne is not used.

454. canal du Midi, often called the Canal de Languedoc. It connects the Garonne watershed with the Mediterranean.

514. eût bien mieux fait leur affaire, would hâve suited them much better.