inerte, *torpid

que l'on ne reconnalsEait . . . tonChant, 'the true character of which could net be discovered except by actual contact,* i.e, when y ou came up against it.

24. de la Garde, ^ of the Royal Guards ' (of the unpopular King Charles x. ).

25. Plus loîn . . . étoUes, ' Beyond, st battery of artillery over which rose its lighted fuses like two stars.' mèches =^\}a!t twisted coil of cotton with which gunners used to fire their guns,' also= * lock of hair.'

38. il allait, . . . assurer, * he w as going to march his men up, to satisfy himself.' se porter vers ='to proceed to.'

41. que faisaient . . . marchands, ' that shopkeepers were having felled and bumt.*

42. trouble, * disturbance,' * confusion.* * Trouble ' is peine, f. ; or chagrin, m.

43. s'asseyant, * sitting down.* Irregular présent participle of s^ asseoir.

44. il se mit . . . ronds, 'he set to drawing Unes and circles.'

46. Ce fat . . . Tisage, ' It was thîs that made me recognise him, whilst he recognised me by my face.*

50. était un homme . . . cultivé, ' was a man of upright and stem character and highiy cultivated mind.' sens^ m., Latin

Ch, I.] NOTES, 129

'sensum,' m., 4th decl. =(i) *feeling'; (2) *judgment.' In this idîom both heart and intellect are incladed.

51. comme la Garde . . . époque, ' a type often to be found at this time in the ranks of the Guards,* lit *such as the Guards contained many at this time/

55> i^om de guerre, nom de guerre or * nickname.' ^ 57. rbomme, i.e. by Captain Renaud himself.

64. pomme, *head.' Pomme^i, Latin /^wa, * fruits,* neut. plur. mistaken for a fem. sing.: (i) *apple * ; (2) hence * knob * of any kind. Cf. le pommeau du sabre^ de la selle— ' the pommel of the s Word,* * of the saddie.' assez, 'rather.'