profitant de, E.B. 122, Obs

du trouble, 'the unsettled state of affairs,' 'the disturbance.'

1. 24. Ce fut à quoi. In strict grammar one would expect ce fut ce à quoi, which would be cumbrous. There is a similar ellipsis in voilà qui, E.B. 92. For the dative see E.B. 150.

1. 29. comme la Garde en renfermait... 'such as might be found in abundance,' a literal rendering is impossible. There is a similar German idiom 'Da sind Stellen darin, wie sie nicht besser sein konnen,' 'such as cannot be improved upon,' see Eve's German Grammar, § 431.

1. 33. nom de guerre, originally used in its literal sense of a name adopted by a soldier when he enlisted, but afterwards applied to any pseudonym. It is sometimes used for a literary pseudonym.

1. 34. indifféremment, 'with equanimity,' 'without objection.' It has another m aning 'indiscriminately, without making a difference.'

F homme. The person to whom the name is given.

Pace 3.