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1. 24. ne s'en trouverait pas plus mal. Se trouver bien de quelque chose is 'to be satisfied with.'

assisté, 'been present at.'

1. 28. de la mémoire, not ma mémoire. Mémoire, like gout, esprit, &c, is treated as a part of oneself. E.B. 60, Obs. 1.

1. 32. ponton, 'hulk.' It is often used of the English men-of-war cut down to the first deck (any picture of an old man-of-war will show what that means), which were used for detaining the French prisoners during the great war.

1. 33. préventions differs but little from préjugés. In the singular prévention is often used to denote a prejudiced state of mind, pj-éjugé is limited to a feeling on one particular point.

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