que, expletive, for emphasis

3. Seville, Sevilla^ capital of the province of that name, one of the largest and most important commercial cities of Spain.

4. nous avons bien la mine de demeurer, it looks very much as if we were going to stay,

5. faisant le gros dos, assuming an important air^ as a cat that puts its back up. Cf. colloquialism : " to get one's back up " (in another sense).

Pago 158. — I. Mgr., abbreviated form of Monseigneur,

2. olla podrida, in French, oille (pronounced h-ye\ ox pot-pourri^ Aotchpotch^ a favorite dish of the Spaniards, composed of several kinds of seasoned meats.

3. la Manche, La Manchay a former province of Spain. The Don Quixote country.

Page 169, — i. surprendre, in overtaking.

2. dérouillaient, were getting the rust out of their guns (making use of them again after long disuse).

Page 160. — I. civet (from cive^ chive), usually rabbit stew, containing onions and chives.

2. ragoût {ragoûter = to acquire new taste) not necessarily a stew, but any dish with sauce and ingredients to excite the appetite.

3. marines (Latin, marinus^ pertaining to the sea, i. e., salt), usually, pickled ; also fried in batter.

4. Lucène, a town in th^ province of Cordova, on the Cascajar.

5. Triaquero, Spanish for a sort of quack, charlatan. Under this name Lesage evidently designates Voltaire, for whom he had no great love. Farther on, Lope de Vega stands for Corneille and Calderon for Racine. The whole of this chapter contains malicious allusions to Voltaire's dramatic pretensions.

Page 161. — I. parterre très serré, pit closely packed.

2. trois ordres militaires, probably the three orders of knighthood of a semi-religious and military character, of Saint-Jacques (see page 32, note 2). Calatràva (see page 124, note 5) and Alcantara; this last one founded, in 1 1 76, in imitation of the Templars and suppressed in