gouvernement, governorship', — Vera, a small town

5. Chevalier de Calatrava, an order of knighthood in Spain, founded in 1 1 58, suppressed in 1872, re-established, 1874.

6. âpre à la curée, eager, greedy for gain (as a dog is eager for the quarry) ; " quarry " (hunting), a part of the entrails of a beast taken, given to hounds.

Page 125. — i. vous me tiendrez compte, you will allow me; carry to my account,

2. Isocrate, Isocrates, one of the ten Attic orators, distinguished as a teacher of eloquence. Born about 436 B. C.

2o6 NOTES P. 126-134.]

3. hôtel, house , mansion (in speaJcing of a nobleman's or rich man's residence).

4. peu s'en fallait que je, / came very near ; a little more and I,

5. Nomentanus (probably the Nomentanus mentioned by Horace (Sat. 1. I.) ; friande, epicurean.

Pa^e 126. — i. faire venir Peau au moulin, bring grist to the mill,

2. pour le coup avoir attaché un clou à la roue, this time to have stopped the wheel.

3. me faire grâce, excuse^ shield myself ; fat (/ pronounced).

4. Léthé, Lethe, in Greek mythology, the river of oblivion, one of the streams of Hades, the waters of which possessed the property of causing those who drank of them, to forget their former existence.

Page 127. — i. Muscada. French, muscade, nutmeg.

2. Gallina ciega, lit., blind hen, in Spanish ; some game analogous to bUnd man's buff.