lÀcher, ' let loose

un vieil oratorien (lléfiroqué, 'an old unfrocked Oratorian. ' A monk of the * Oratory of Jésus * who has thrown off holy orders. This order devoted themselves particularly to the educational profession.

287. allez, * y ou may be sure,* or * I can tell you.* Tenez, 'look hère,' or *now corne.*

291. Moi, Je . . . chercher, '/don't know; hard as I may look.* Moi, Je, cf. 11. 206-7, an<l 11* 291, 296, 298, and 308 infra, N.B, The idiom * avoir beau * must always be foUowed by a sentence explaining the uselessness of the endeavour.

294. les Toileries, the more modem part of the king's palace in Paris, adjoining to the Louvre, the older part.