hom, *except.* Hors de = lit. 'outside

21. Charles XII., the warlike king of Sweden (1697- 17 18), being greeted with a hissing volley of musketry on his landing in Seeland in Denmark (1700), at the head of his army, told his gênerais, who were blaming his youthful rashness in thus ex* posing himself, that ^this would henceforth be his only music*

22. tout enfant que J'étais, <a child as I was,' lit. ^thougk I was * ; * however young I was.* N.B. indic. after tout . . . que,

23. qnand 11 . . . mains, ' when it roared, my face flushed with pleasure, I leapt for joy, I clapped it,* lit. 'clapped my hands to it.*