doit aller jusqu’au, is to reach the

Page 4 . — 1. foyer, “ hearth,” “ fireside,” here centre.

2. qu’elle s’appelle Judith, be her name Judith. See Apocrypha, Book of Judith xii, xiii. Judith cut off the head of the Assyrian general, Holofernes, as he slept in the tent. — C 161 ie, a Roman heroine, hostage with the Etruscan king Porsenna, escaped to Rome by swimming' the Tiber. — la Cava, according to legend, betrayed Spain (71 1 A.D.) to the Moors, thereby ending the reign of Roderick, the last Goth on the throne. — Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), separated from her husEand, of whom she was passionately fond, by his service in the army, her loving influence over him was such as to keep him from joining a league against the Emperor, and to refuse the crown of Naples which was offered as the price of his treason, though this would have brought him back to her. — Charlotte Corday (1793) assas-

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sinated Marat in his bath, hoping to put an end to the massacres in the Reign of Terror of which Marat was the chief promoter.

3. A Dieu ne plaise, God forbid. Diet 1 is indirect object of plaise.