de mon peu d'avancement, ' of my slow promotion

233. me, ethical dative, need not be tilknslated in English. de reyenlr . . . mémoire, <of telling xpu my life,

which I was reviewing in my memory.* Lit, • going over my life.'

238. sur ce parapet, ' on this parapet* There are even now parts of the Paris Boulevards where the footway is co^siderably higher than the carriage-way, and is Uned by an irontlIraiKng or parapet.

239. Car on parait . . . cave, < For theyseem tome to hâve ceased for the présent aiming at us through the Windows and the cellar-gratings.* Soupirail^ one of the seven words in «7, the plural of which is formed in aux. In France houses are differently constructed from ours, and the cellars hâve air-holes or loop-holes protected by iron grating through which they could fire, and down which incendiaries threw potroleum during the Commune of 1870 in order to set the houses on fire.