troubler, 'confuse

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1. 4. problème cf enfant, 'childish problem,' E.B. 20. 1. 5. mille fois, 'a thousand times over.'

1. 7. plus que lui. Bonaparte's general éducation had been much neglected.

1. 16. s'étourdissent, 'distract themselves,' get rid of uncomfortable thoughts — "si l'on peut s'étourdir sur son état en y pensant peu," J. J. Rousseau, which may be rendered 'if one can make oneself forget....'

sur toute chose probably depends on s'étourdir, as in p. 29, I. 14, and the example given above, and the passage means 'get rid of uncomfortable thoughts about everything by action,' and answers to être sûres de tout. If this be so par V action is rather out of place.