aux teintes glauques, of a greenish hue

4. boghei = buggy. 5. à des allures folles, at a very rapid gait.

6. Sainte-Marguerite is a small island in the Mediterranean, a few miles of the French coast. There is hère a castle which is sometimes used as a prison.

Page 73. — 1. sa longue taille mince, his tall, slender figure.

Page 74. — 1. dans le vide, in the space.

2. Elle traînaillait, she zvalked ; lit., she dragged herself.

3. elle contemplait, she steadily looked at. 4. désemparé, broken.