Mon grand âge, ' My great âge

65. au point de, ' so badly as to.' Lit. ' to such a degree as ta*

69. gr&ce, 'favour.' Grâce =s{i) 'grâce,* 'gracefulness,* * graciousness * ; (2) hence 'favour*; (3) hence 'pardon*; (4) plural s ' thanks ' (Lat. gratias aghré).

14S NOTES. [ch. ra.

69. en. * In * or * to ' before the féminine name of a country or province =^«.

70-71. Je croie . . . finir, * I very much think that I shall die there.* Aller has hère merely the idea of futurity, as in English *you are going to laiigh,* = *you are on the point of laughing. '

76. d'épée. N,B, de after Ihe nçgative (no definite or indefinite article).

77. c'est de te défier de, * it is to beware of.* Lit. * mistrust.' Cesty see Appendix I. B. 11. § i.

79. tu serais un Séide, *you might become a Séid,' i.e. so devoted a partisan or votary as to commit a crime out of party or religious spirit. Séide is a character in Voltaire's play Mahomet^ who is so devoted to the prophet as to commit à murder at his bidding.