il partait au triple galop, he would boit

70. — 7. qui luttent d'harmonie, vying with each other in singing.

71. — II. borderie, /////r Jann — a word peculiar to the dialects of the conter andsouthof France. — 15. oseraie, patch of young willows for the growth of wood suitable for the making of baskets. See Vocabulary.

74. — 17. Ils ne fur'nt pas, etc. Thèse lines fall into the kind of poetry known as the alba or morning song, the thème of which is as follows: Two lovers hâve a tryst which they wish to kcep secret. The lark then becomes their watchman to tell them when day is approaching. Often some other bird is taken. The Provençal and carly Italian poets made fréquent use of this thème. SiciHan popular poetry fumished our author with the following example, which appears as a foot-note in the original text of the story:

Ah ! rondinella bella Tu fai gran bugiarda:

Hai commenciato a cantar E non si vede l'alba.

Which might be translated:

Oh! pretty swallow Yovir trick's very hoUow:

You've started a singing Thoiigh dawn's not appearing.

Shakespeare has a notable example of this thème in Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scène V. t\xr^nt = jurent, point' = pointe. qu' = que. — 31. à l'heure qu'il est, inru', at tins very time.

75. — 4. ferait ensuite une démarche près de Beauvais, would then approach Beauvais on the matter.

76. — II. Car je ne veux pas de M. Delétang pour mari. The de gives a tone of pronounced scorn — jor l'Il hâve nothiug to do with M. Delétang as a possible htisband. — 12. En voilà bien d'une autre, à présent! Literally: Behold indeed some other one of thcm nowl Translate: Now another bee in jour bonnet! — 30. Il n'a pas un sou vaillant, He hasn't a penny to his name.

77. — 9. Bon! Bon! Yes, yesl — but ironically. — 20. l'homme aux mystères, man of mystery — a taunt insinuating double dealing on the part of the Abbé.