en prenant un bouton de mon habit, * button-holing me

.173. hausse-col, 'gorget,* a large iron plate covering the chest and shoulders of infantry officers in former times.

175- J© ne puis l'envoyer chercher. * I cannot send for it.* N.B, the omission QÎpas, permissible after five verbs : savoir^ pouvoir, gser (to dare), cesser, and bouger (to stir).

176. comme des chiens enragés, Mike so many mad dc^s.* Enragé im plies hydrophobia in animais ; also used figuratively of persons.

178. N,B, the inversion after peut-être \ cf. the English * Perhaps hâve you no longer got it.'

179. J'avais aussi, etc. ' I too had tendered my résignation fifteen days ago. *

181. les ordonnances. The ordinances of 25th July 1830, in which King Charles x. abolished the freedom of the French press, and which were the immédiate cause of the riots of the 27th, 28th, and 29th, and the fall of the King.

On va, etc. * War will be break ing out.' Lit. * People are going to take up arms.*

183. mon bonnet à poil, ' my bearskîn.' High fur cap, still wom by our Guards.

184. J'ai été . . . gens-là, * I went to the barracks to join thèse good people.' N,B. the présent perfect (past indefinite) fai étéy used in conversation instead ôf the past indefinite

(preterite) je fus. Cf. English * I hâve been to Rome * = * I hâve gone to.* z86. au fond du cœur, ' in their heart of bearts.'

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