fin, secret

4. tiers état ( pronounced tierr état), middle class, the bourgeoisie ; that part of the nation that belonged neither to the church nor to the aristocracy.

Page 68. — i. croc, pronounced ^r^.

2. exercer . . . aux dépens de qui il appartiendrait, practice . ..at the expense of any one who wanted to try it ; who saw fit ( to employ me).

3. qu'on ne lui plaignit point . . , not to spare him , . ; to give him all he wanted.

4. plaies et bosses, sicknesses 0/ all kinds ; lit., sores and bumps.