point d'appui, ' fulcrum

eût été donné, élégant use of pluperfect subjunctive for

pluperfect indicative after si. Cf. Ch. i. 1. 129, note. 120. mais honteusement, ' but ashamed at itself for so doing.* 120-1. en cœur . . . était, ' like a slavish heart as it was.* 122. Inentendus, 'unheard'; a rare word, accepted by Littré,

but not to be found in the dictionary of the French Academy. 125. qu'ils s'étaient donné, 'that they had given them-

selves ' ; étaient, because of the reflexive form of the verb. 128. méprisées, ' despised * ; * une méprise * = * a mistake,'

taking one thing for another.

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Z29. des tambonn . • . cliamps, ' of the drums beating a salute.'

130. Or, *well'= Latin auterriy beginning the second premiss of a syllogism.

134. tant to be translated with promptes, ' so rapid.' aUures, * ways * ; lit. * gait * (of a horse, etc. ) ; hence

metaphorically.