ôrudit de poootille, a coU^dor of other^ knowUdge^ an

ervdUe at second-hand, 24. Siu: le tard, rather late in life, 27. pour teinturier littéraire, /or literary upholsterer; i. e.,

to fumish his unfumished brain as an upholsterer fits

up an unfurnîshed room.

30. se desséchait le cerveau, exhausted his brain, 34* — 32. presque assoupie, almost laUed to unconsciousness. . 85. — 10. La vie lui eût manqué, etc., if life had failed her^ etc.

For this form of a conditional clause, see Less. 64, iv. 3,

Note 3.