z. Cela lui tenait chaud, that made him warm

36. — 2. n ne lui en faisait pas plus mauvaise figure, literally. He (Beauvais) didn't make him for it any worse face. Translate, He wasn't severe upon him for if. — Z5. l'astrologue de la fable: allusion to La Fontaine's fable XIII, bk. II: L'Astrologue qui se laisse tomber dans un puits:

Un aatroloffue un joixr se laissa choir Au fond d'un ptiits. On lui dit: "Pauvre béte. Tandis qu'à peine à tes pieds tu peux voir, Penses-tu lire au-dessus de ta tête?"

29. et il lui échappait alors avec l'abbé des brusqueries de reconnaissance, at such times gruff thank-yous were bestowed upon the abbi.

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37. — 9. la chose, movable property, chattels, special property. — z z . loup-g^ou. This word is formed of lupus (wolf) and a Geimanic word, verewolf or varwulf (man-wolf). Literally translated, then, loup-garou is wolf-manwolf. In popular superstition it means a man in the form of a wolf which wanders about at night. The loup-garou plays an important part in the folklore of all of France.

39. — 16. Encore un peu de temps, a short time yet. — ^25. Le temps était-il beau, the inverted order equivalent to [an if clause: // the weather was fair.

40. — 23. n y avait des clochettes et des coupes, des thyrses et des panaches, There were little bells and cups, cones and plumes. See Vocabulary.

42. — z. la guerre de Crimée, the Crimean war (1854-55); on one side Turkey, France, England and Piedmont, on the other the Russians who claimed excessive privileges in Turkey and threatened possession of Constantinople. The Russians were defeated.

43. — 22. Mais ne fait qu'y passer, literally, but does no more than pass there. Translate: but leaves no other impression,