C'est par représailles. .. It is by way of re

prisai. . .

55. 2. La ville. From what follows the town is situated on the Riviera, the narrow strip of coast which séparâtes the Maritime Alps and the Appennines from the Mediterranean, between Nice, in France, and Spezzia, in the province of Genoa, in Italy.

55. 4. frotté de poudre d'or, refers to ciel. Translate: rubbed, as it were, with gold dust. dentelées, jagged, notched.

alentissait, more usual : ralentissait.

une voix de femme au timbre léger {timbre de la voix = the intonation of the voice). Translate : the f rail-toned voice of a woman.

ayant les yeux fixés au loin, whose eyes had been staring into space.

la Corse, Corsica, a large island of the Mediterranean Sea, situated 54 miles west of the coast of Tuscany, 98 miles south of Genoa, and 106 miles southeast of Nice.

deux ou trois fois par an, two or three times a year.

Peut-être eurent-ils. . . When a sentence begins with peut-être, and a few other conjunctions like aussi, à peine, toujours, the verb and the pronoun subject are inverted.

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