Noue prend-on . • . d'eau, ' Do they take us fox ferry

27. ayons. Subjunctive, as generally, after an interrogative verb.

28. n aurait . . . qu'il, 'It would hâve been better for France had he.*

29. eût. Subjunctive, as generally, after an impersonal verb. 29-30. 11 les a . . . expiées, * he bas atoned for tbem in

glory,* i,â, by dying a soldier's death, at his post.

31. J'ezple ... à son bord, ' I atone in disgust for the one I committed in staying on board his ship.

34. Inl arracha les entrailles, ' ripped him open.' Lit. ' tore out his bowels.'

35-36. n se fit . • . son, ' He had himself put into a bag of bran,' in ord«r to prevent the blood from flowing.

36. son banc de quart, < the bridge of his vessel. ' Lit. ' his bridge.'

37. que nous aillons sauter, * that we were going to blow up.* Sauter — (i) *to jump ' ; (2) hence * to explode.'

37-38. vers les . . . soIb, < towards ten o'dock at night.' Compare the idiom, sur les dix heures,

39. se sauva, 'made their escape.' Notice the singular after French collective nouns not foUowed by a genitive plural.