Cela lui tenait chaud, that made him warm

36. — 2. Il ne lui en faisait pas plus mauvaise figure, literally, He {Beauvais) didnH make him for it any worse face. Translate, He wasn't severe upon him for if. — 15. l'astrologue de la fable: allusion to La Fontaine's fable XIII, bk. II: L'Astrologue qui se laisse tomber dans un puits:

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

19. et il lui échappait alors avec l'abbé des brusqueries de reconnaissance, at siich times gruff thank-yous were hestowed upon the abbé.

37. — 9. la chose, movable property, chattels, spécial propcrty. — 1 1 . loup-garou. This word is formed of lupus (wolf ) and a Germanie word, verewolf or varwul} (man-wolf). Literally translated, then, loup-garou is wolj-manwolf. In popular superstition it means a man in the form of a wolf which wandcrs about at night. The loup-garou plays an important part in the folklore of ail of France.

39. — 16. Encore un peu de temps, a short tinte yet. — 25. Le temps était-il beau, the inverted order équivalent to [an if clause: 7/ the weather was jair.

40. — 23. n y avait des clochettes et des coupes, des thyrses et des panaches, There were little bells and cups, cônes and plumes. Sce \'ocabulary.

42. — I. 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 privilèges 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.