dans la SUitCi later on. disgrâces, misfortunes

3. pour lui tirer les vers du nez, to draw him out. Cf. to worm a secret out of him.

4. ils étaient d'intelligence, they had an understanding with each other ; they were in collusion.

Page 13* — I. en passer par où il TOUlut, submit to anything he liked.

2. enfants de famille, elliptical for enfants de bonne famille ; an expression usually applied to sons of well-to-do parents; farther on, hourgeois, (freely) citizen ; respectable tradesman.