recueillement, silence

Page 11. — 1. laquelle, vous le savez, est décrétée d'arrestation,

against whom, as y ou know, a warrant has been issued.

2. vous aurez bientôt de mes nouvelles, you will soon hear from vie, i.e. I shall soon hâve you arrested.

Page 12. — 1. à tous les crus du canton, to ail the wines grown in the vicinity ; lit., in the county.

Page 13. — 1. salut, the evening service.

2. parties de piquet, games of piquet, a very popular game in France, played with thirty-two cards including from the six-spot to the ace.

3. avec la lorgnette en bandoulière, with afield-glass hanging on a leather strap thrown across their shotdders.

4. elles se forgeaient de beaux rêves, they wove pleasing fancies.

5. elles se dépitaient tout bas, they were vexed way down in their hearts.

Page 14. — 1. fit mine, seemed.

2. Philémon et Baucis, two well known mythological characters who gave to La Fontaine the idea of a very graceful poem (1685).