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legs, pronounced le

Page 58« — i. nous ne fîmes qu'un saut, we rapidly covered the distance, lit., made but one jump. Cul-de-sac, pronounced cu-d^sac. We would say to day preferably, impasse, for blind alley.

Page 64. — i. par bas, on the lower floor,

2. pièces de plain-pied bien boisées, rooms on the same floor, finely wainscoted. Notice that plain is the same as the English plain; i. e., "even," "flat."

3. pour le mettre au fait, (/ pronounced in fait^ to make him acquainted with the object of our visit,

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