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rapide, express or through train

Pasre 81. — i. Menton, a city in the south of France, on the Mediterranean. A retreat for consumptives on account of its mild climate.

2. le convoi roulait à toute vitesse, the train luas rjinningatfull

speed.

Page 84. — i. barine, a Russian word meaning mistress. 2. ni pour quoi que ce soit, nor for any reason tohatever.

Page 87. — i. Don Quichotte, Don Quixote, an exaggerated type of chivalry, the hero of the celebrated romance in which its author, Cervantes, satirized the dangerous préjudice of race and blood and the contempt of useful work which prevailed in Spanish Society in his time.

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