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en passager, for a short time only

24. porte envie, envy. I 187. — 5. Fhiloméle, poetical name for nightingale.

10. l'eau bénite, holy water. 1 19. Aux. etc. : see note on p. 7, l. 6. On the return of the

Bourbons at the fall of Napoléon, the army of the latter was |

disbanded, and many soldiers suffered want.

188. — 5. sensible, sensitivc, accessible to pity, not **sensi- I

ble." The référence is to Louis XVIII. and his treatment of the followers of Napoléon. 1

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