légèrement cligné, slighUy closed

87. — 7. lui avait sauté au cerveau, had svddenly eniered his head.

10. Rien de ce qu'il venait de lui dire, etc., nothing of what he had just said to her^ etc. Note that thèse words, and the rest to the close of the paragraph, are the words which he used to console her, thoiigh not hère said to be. It is characteristic of the animated style of Claretie

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that he leaves mach to be inferred, and yet the style is

none the less clear on that account 87.--32. dans ses yeux bleus, d'une douoeur triste, in her

mdly sweet blue eyes, 88.— 12. En travers de sa vie, aa an obstruetum in kiê life. Note * the différence between this form and à travers, or au

travers de^ meaning 'through.'