faute de, < for want of

270. autrichiennes, * Aiistrian * — * Autriche ' = * Austria.' N.B. No capital in the Frcnch adjective. Cf. 1. 89.

272. hôte, * guest ' hère, = also * host,' the man who receives

guests.

qu'il s'était donné, 'that he had chosen to invite.

NB. auxiliary * être ' with the reflexive verb. 374. comme, 'as if.' 274-5. abattement, 'prostration.' 278. 11 avait effleuré de, ' he had grazed with.' 284. Voltaire . . . entamés, 'Voltaire did qmS. a little slice

out of you. ' Voltaire^ the great writer and sceptic of the second

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half of the eîghteenth century. entamer^ * to eut something hîtherto untouched.'