J'y réfléchis bien huit jours. Bien refers

hère to huit jours, not to re fléchir, and means not "well" but "indeed," "certainly," "at least."

33. 5. doutance, old French term still used in the country and by the lower classes for soupçon, suspicion.

33. 9. Et 7/ là que = et voilà que (see note to p. 32. 1. 34).

33. 12. Le sang ne m'en a fait qu'un tour et j'ai failli le tuer sur place, idiom that cannot be rendered literally. Translate : This set my blood boiling and I ail but (properly, I failed to) killed him on the spot.