vous entre au cœur, enters your hearL

16. avec plus de déchirement, with an added heati^pang. 22. On ne jette pas le manche après la cosrnée,

one does nU venture the saddle qfter losing the horse ; or, more literallj, one does not throw the handle qfter the axe.

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188.— 24. on 86 frappe si l'on est las de bûcher, one strikes MiM^f ifheis weary of ehopping, Mornas thus gives an unusual and personal tum to the proverb.

29. filet du wafifon, the car rope. Uis travelling corn panions were few, as the cars, as usual in Europe, were avranged on the compartment System.

184» — 5. Monaco. On the Mediterranean, near Nice, the greatest gambling-place in Europe. Hence the allusion below, pour me refaire I to recwperale /Le, renew the fortune as well as the health.