il me prit, p

1. 26. me retourner. Notice the difference between retourner and se retourner.

1. 32. Grandeur, p. 34, 1. 1, again suggesting the title of the book.

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1. 6. de couturne. See E.B. 137 for this way of forming adverbial expressions.

1. 12. le Northumberland is not the name of a ship, but the English county to which Lord Collingwood belonged.

1. 17. déshonorait, 'would have disgraced you,' and so translate Vous étiez perdu, below 1. 23, E.B. 179.

C'eût été échouer. Had the nominative to eût été been anything else than ce, d'échouer would have been written, E.B. 188 (2), 198, Obs. 1.

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